Are you looking for an Engineering Management role leading capital projects over facilities and infrastructures? If so, this is the job for you.

As Associate Director of Facilities, you will provide ongoing engineering support to R&D Engineering Operations and will be responsible for Facilities Services and Capital Projects program management in the New England Region (Cambridge, MA and Branford, CT). This will include the development and improvement of processes that support the operational delivery model and interfaces with other GSK functions, service partners and other 3rd party providers.

The purpose of this role is to support the consistent delivery of facilities and services, working to ensure they are aligned to the local needs and priorities of the business, and to ensure that cost, quality and compliance metrics are achieved by key contract partners.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Verify Contract Partners’ Critical and Key Performance Indicators – ensuring GSK’s support services requirements are met.
• Identify and evaluate business driven variations to service delivery.
• Lead investigations and mitigation plans at the site for significant service failures, critical/major audit findings, dispute resolution and process improvements.
• Champion implementation of engineering standards and process improvement initiatives from RDES service towers into site delivery teams.
• Identify and implement areas for EHS risk reduction and environmental sustainability.
• The GSK Responsible Person for external license to support the statutory Duty Holders in RDES.
• As Responsible Person, ensure compliance to Quality and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) requirements and ensure that the Engineering activity is a safe place to work and ‘inspection ready’ at all times. Will specialize in one or more of these High Severity Risk statutory systems such as:

• Asbestos containing materials
• Pressure Systems (steam boilers)
• Hazardous utility systems
• Cooling Towers & domestic water systems (legionella)
• Construction / demolition works
• Building life safety systems
• High voltage electrical
• Stored bulk liquid & gas
• Fixed & mobile lifting systems
• Hazardous waste management

• Conduct site audits of contractor work being conducted at the site to ensure compliance with national, local and GSK standards.
• Manage “ad-hoc” business projects as required by RDES Site Operations Director.
• Represent FM needs and priorities into RDES budgeting process and Tower service specifications.
• Determine site facilities and utilities development needs and priorities in conjunction with contract partners. Represent these needs and priorities into RDES service towers.
• Maintain ethics and compliance values even when potential risk exists.
• Execute remediation plans from policy gap assessments. Escalate risks and/or conflicts with local customer’s ways of working.
• Deploy compliance processes locally and identify/escalate operational risks to governance teams.
• Additionally, you will support the Site’s safety needs, championing EHS principles across the site and collaborating with management and staff to continuously enhance EHS performance.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or similar degree
• 8+ years’ experience in the management of complex facilities support services to a large office or pharmaceutical facility
• 3 years' Experience in the Research & Development process & needs in lab environments

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience in Six Sigma/Lean/Operational Excellence

• Understand/experience in GxP requirements.

• Experience with complex Service Contracts

• Leadership skills that enable the introduction of new ways of working and accelerated change management

• Must be able to interact well with peers, subordinates, and senior personnel in scientific, engineering, and operational disciplines.

• Must be comfortable and thrive in ambiguity and think strategically to solve complex problems.

• Sense of Urgency / Decision making

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Must be able to generate options to resolve problems, prioritize solutions and implement decisions.

• Must be competent in handling simultaneously occurring tasks and have excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Strong technical knowledge of risk management and safety principles in lab environments

• Understanding of relevant health, safety, and environmental regulations, as well as company-specific standards to ensure all activities align with legal and corporate requirements.

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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.

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