Engineering Technician

At GSK’s Barnard Castle site, we are looking to recruit an Engineering Technician to join our team.

GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site and has invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art, bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases, and as a key supplier of some of GSK’s blockbuster products, the site contributes revenues of ~$2Bn annually.

The engineering team provide technical expertise to support the manufacturing systems for all production operations across the Barnard Castle site.

Job Purpose:

Engineering Technicians provide comprehensive and professional engineering support service for the Steriles Business Unit (SBU) to meet business and regulatory needs. You be responsible for engineering activities associated with the production process (operating across Inspect, Assembly, and Packaging operations) for syringes and vials.

Key responsibilities (include.,):

Equipment Maintenance & Reliability Support day-to-day breakdown repairs of production and plant equipment.

Complete Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules and breakdown maintenance activities.

Perform calibration of equipment instrumentation.

Lead equipment upgrades and manage equipment obsolescence through continuous improvement initiatives.

GMP, Quality & Safety Prepare, complete, and take ownership of GMP safety and quality documentation.

Maintain compliance with role, departmental, and site procedures, processes, and systems.

Supervise internal and external contractors, ensuring GMP standards are upheld and contract company details are reviewed for accuracy.

Positively engage with stakeholders to ensure relevant contract details remain accurate.

Engineering Change & Project Support Complete tasks within Engineering Change Controls.

Support localised area projects, including new product introduction activities.

SAP / MERPS & Data Management Accountable for the delivery of SAP/MERPS activities including Work Orders, Notifications, Data Maintenance, and ordering of plant spares.

Deliver data cleansing activities to ensure optimum data maintenance standards.

Manage data creations and changes to SAP vendor data.

Continuous Improvement & Performance Drive Continuous Improvement to increase performance in line with EHS and Quality improvement objectives and KPIs, utilising GPS tools.

Self-manage training compliance metrics to ensure ongoing personal and regulatory compliance.

Shift: Please note that this role operates on a 24/5 shift rota:
Earlies (6:00 to 14:00), Lates (14:00 to 22:00), & Nights (22:00 to 6:00).

About You:

Relevant engineering qualifications and / or experience is required (eg; HND / HNC, Engineering Apprenticeship). A good standard of numeracy and literacy is essential.

CLOSING DATE for applications:
Friday 29th of May 2026 (COB).Basic Qualifications /

Skills:

Relevant qualifications/certificates and engineering experience (e.g. Engineering Apprenticeship . An HNC / HND Level qualification).Applicants without an HNC level qualification need to have Eng Tech status (certificate) and have completed a recognised engineering apprenticeship.

A good standard of numeracy and literacy.

Hands-on experience of manufacturing processes and procedures (ideally obtained from working in a highly-regulated industry).Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP).If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage Life at GSK | GSK .Why GSK?

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