Process Engineer; NPI; FTC​/Secondment

GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site with advanced manufacturing capability supporting sustained product supply, technical transfers, and new product introductions. As part of our continued focus on growth and performance, we are strengthening engineering support for new product introduction (NPI) within Q Block, ensuring equipment, processes, and systems are ready to deliver safe, compliant, and reliable manufacture.

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As a Process Engineer (NPI) - Q Block, you will provide hands‑on engineering and technical leadership to support the introduction, scale‑up, and routine manufacture of new products within Q Block. You will play a critical role in ensuring assets, maintenance strategies, engineering data, and technical standards are robust, compliant, and aligned to operational readiness requirements.

• Support new product introduction within Q Block, working closely with Operations, Quality, Validation, MSAT, and Engineering teams to ensure equipment and processes are ready for safe, compliant manufacture.
• Provide technical oversight and hands‑on engineering support during product introduction, process trials, engineering runs, validation activity, and early‑life manufacturing support.
• Act as a key engineering representative for Q Block NPI activity, ensuring maintainability, operability, reliability, and compliance considerations are embedded into technical transfer and launch planning.
• Lead and coordinate engineering technician activities aligned to NPI milestones, including planning, prioritisation, issue resolution, and communication of progress and risks.
• Act as first point of escalation for technical issues impacting equipment readiness, process execution, reliability, or product introduction timelines.
• Support development, review, and execution of engineering, validation, and GMP documentation, ensuring Q Block equipment and maintenance standards meet quality, safety, and regulatory expectations.
• Support and coordinate change control management for Q Block NPI activity, ensuring engineering changes are assessed, documented, approved, implemented, and closed in line with GMP, validation, quality, and operational requirements.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to support successful product launch, ramp‑up, and transition to routine manufacture, ensuring lessons learned are captured and embedded into standard ways of working.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and reliability improvement across Q Block, using technical learning from NPI activity to improve performance, reduce risk, and strengthen future product introductions.

• Minimum of an HNC level qualification in an Engineering discipline
• An industry recognised Engineering apprenticeship
• Significant post‑apprenticeship industry experience
• Demonstrable experience working within regulated (GxP) environments
• Experience supporting new product introduction, technical transfer, validation, or operational readiness activities
• Experience supporting GMP change control management , including change assessment, implementation planning, documentation, and closure
• Strong collaboration skills with cross‑functional teams within complex organisations

• Experience working in aseptic or classified environments (e.g. ISO 5 / ISO
  7)
• Experience supporting NPI, technical transfer, process validation, or product launch activities
• Demonstrable leadership and team coordination experience
• Experience acting as a subject matter…