What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director Engineering Compliance position at GSK?
Site Name: Cambridge Binney Street
Posted Date: Feb 3 2025
Job Posting Deadline: February 14, 2025
Job Title: Associate Director Engineering Compliance
Location: Cambridge Binney Street
Job Purpose
The Associate Director of Engineering Compliance is responsible for managing and reporting compliance activities across all RDES functions in the New England Region. This pivotal role ensures that the site consistently meets and strives to exceed regulatory and internal standards, achieving an "inspection ready" status within Engineering. The Associate Director will report on local, departmental, site, and global metrics, ensuring transparent and accurate compliance tracking. Additionally, this role will ensure the deployment of appropriate engineering, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), and Quality standards throughout the site, in alignment with Global Engineering and EHS Standards. The Associate Director of Engineering Compliance will play a crucial role in maintaining operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or 1 801 567 5155 (outside US).
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Posted Date: Feb 3 2025
Job Posting Deadline: February 14, 2025
Job Title: Associate Director Engineering Compliance
Location: Cambridge Binney Street
Job Purpose
The Associate Director of Engineering Compliance is responsible for managing and reporting compliance activities across all RDES functions in the New England Region. This pivotal role ensures that the site consistently meets and strives to exceed regulatory and internal standards, achieving an "inspection ready" status within Engineering. The Associate Director will report on local, departmental, site, and global metrics, ensuring transparent and accurate compliance tracking. Additionally, this role will ensure the deployment of appropriate engineering, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), and Quality standards throughout the site, in alignment with Global Engineering and EHS Standards. The Associate Director of Engineering Compliance will play a crucial role in maintaining operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Work as a flexible and motivated member of the team.
- Follow all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Standards of Work (SW) applicable and for which training has been received.
- Ensure all engineering changes are documented and approved in advance.
- Always act in a safe manner, in compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act and all other relevant legislation and use GSK safety reporting systems to highlight potential hazards.
- Stay up to date with all training requirements, including both classroom courses and computer-based training through the 'My Learning' internal platform.
- Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) processes.
- Act as the site point of contact for all new EHS Global Alerts and manage the reporting and close-out of any actions arising from alerts.
- Manage site compliance with Central Engineering initiatives, such as the management of Asbestos, Legionella, and Boilers.
- Represent Engineering at the Site Risk Management Forum.
- Ensure all identified risks have mitigation plans.
- Manage the close-out of risk mitigation plans.
- Ensure any new engineering risks are clearly defined and recorded.
- Act as the Engineering Standards Process Owner for Engineering.
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
- 7 years of experience in Facilities Management (FM)
- 7 years of experience in Operations or Engineering leadership of engineering disciplines managing high-severity risk at R&D facilities.
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Managerial skills and leadership abilities, experience motivating and influencing senior executives and managers in a demanding and rapidly evolving environment.
- Exhibit the ability to think and act strategically, shown by initiating and engaging in long-term planning projects
- The ability to think and act strategically and initiate and engage in long term planning.
- Strong ability to act as a motivator of change.
- Consistently apply standards to ensure compliance, with a history of successful compliance audits or reviews.
- Possess technical expertise to communicate and manage complex technical issues, demonstrated translating technical data and articulating key messages to stakeholders.
- Knowledge of the Research & Development process and understand GxP requirements, with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in an R&D environment.
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or 1 801 567 5155 (outside US).
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
