Are you looking for an engineering role that allows you to leverage your technical knowledge in a state-of-the-art manufacturing environment?  If so, this Asset Management Senior Engineer role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

The operational asset management specialist plays a key role in helping manufacturing sites reliably deliver products to patients by improving how physical assets are managed and operated. Working closely with site teams, he supports the deployment of asset management standards across work management, operational reliability and reliability by design, calibration management, and engineering store management. His contribution increases asset availability, reduce operational losses, and embed compliant, data‑driven ways of working. Through hands‑on collaboration at site level and effective use of EAM systems and digital tools, he enables sites to secure service to patients, improves cost management and asset usage while maintaining the highest standards of Quality, EHS, and GMP compliance.

This role is practical and impact‑focused: He helps turn standards into daily operational practices that create measurable and sustainable value for the business.

Each specialist is expected to master a combination of 2 of the first 4 domains and brings a demonstrated level of competencies in the 4th level, supporting their primary 2 specialties.

1.         Reliability Excellence Management

• Master asset reliability standards: FMECA, RCM, RAMS, Preventive maintenance effectiveness review, preventive maintenance optimization, root cause analysis, bad actor management, and criticality management.

• Have a good knowledge of supportive EHS tools including Hazid, Hazop and LOA.

• Use EAM data (SAP ECC, S/4HANA, …) to drive improvements

• Optimize reliability strategies reducing failure rate, and optimization costs

• Oversight GMP and EHS compliance across sites and support implementation of actions.

• Work hands‑on with site teams to convert reliability analysis into sustained actions.

• Leverage digital solutions (ex. Python) to improve diagnostics and decision‑making.

• Use cross sites scorecards to enable benchmarking across sites.

• Animate the reliability engineering COP, ensuring consistent development of site engineers.

2.         Work Execution Management

• Master end‑to‑end work management processes: gatekeeping, planning, scheduling, preparation, execution, and work order closure.

• Ensure consistent/quality CMMS data to enable effective planning and execution.

• Support sites in improving daily maintenance execution, reducing emergency work, backlog, and asset impact, with strong collaboration with the GPS team.

• Promote disciplined use paperless tools, in compliance with data integrity requirements.

• Drive measurable improvements in asset availability, productivity, and cost efficiency through better work management practices, cross site scorecard.

• Animate the work management CoP, ensuring consistence development of site engineers.  

3.         Calibration Management

• Master calibration management processes from regulatory requirements to execution and audit readiness, ensuring coherence between calibration specifications, process requirements, and maintenance plans.

• Structure and maintain calibration data in SAP/EAM (assets, plans, cycles, tolerances, priorities) with strong data integrity. Work closely with the CMMS groups to ensure consistency across systems and get the data needed to drive continuous improvement.

• Identify opportunities to optimize calibration strategies based on risk, performance, and regulatory expectations, delivering data driven calibration optimization insights

• Work closely with Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance teams to ensure compliant and efficient calibration execution. Contribute to the reliability governance as lead to animate the calibration community of practices.

• Use digital tools and AI to enable metrics and insights, accelerating decision making & simplification of data analysis, consistency across all manufacturing groups.

4.         Engineering stores

• Master engineering stores and spare parts management processes, including critical spares, stock strategies, and obsolescence management.

• Align CMMS equipment structures, BOMs, spare parts, and maintenance plans.

• Optimize inventory levels, cash exposure, and risk while increasing parts availability.

• Link reliability analysis with spare parts strategies to reduce MTTR, prevent failures.

• Use CMSS data and digital tools (AI, Python, etc.) to deliver insights driving actions.

• Animate engineering stores COP driving continuous improvement and capabilities development across all sites. Use scorecards & insights to drive cross site benchmarks.

5.         Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Acted as a single point of contact for site Engineering teams and operational leads in his field of specialties.

• Leverage GSK production system to eliminate waste and failures, improve continuously.

• Built relationships with sites, service providers or stakeholders aligned with objectives.

6.         Digital fluency

• Contribute to translating Business processes into functional requirements, working closely with the operational engineering system director.

• Ensuring reporting tool supports business needs in his field of competency. Regularly assess tool features against enterprise needs.

• Ability to manipulate databases and use SQL to query data. Using Python is a plus.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, Automation or Chemical Engineering

• Orange Belt

• 5+ years' experience working in a highly regulated Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) environment

• Experience leading facility equipment programs and leading maintenance teams

• experience with machines, production lines, and working in highly regulated environments such as pharma, healthcare, food, cosmetics, or aeronautics.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Masters degree in mechanical, Electrical, Automation or Chemical Engineering

• 5+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry

• Green Belt

• Leadership experience in coaching and collaborative working

• Familiarity with manufacturing regulatory requirements

• Strong written and verbal communications skills

• Ability to influence at all levels

• Proven ability to manage diverse stakeholder groups, including Senior Management.

• Education: Master of Engineering (Global Maintenance & Reliability preferred or demonstrated experience)

• Skills: Networking, influencing, analytical thinking, and strong communication abilities.

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk

• Managing individual and team performance.

• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.

• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.

• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.

• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.

• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.

• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.

• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

About the Zebulon Site 

GSK’s Zebulon site is a global supplier of Respiratory and Solid Dose medicines to patients around the globe and the largest GSK Pharmaceutical secondary manufacturing site in North America.  The site is located less than 30 minutes from downtown Raleigh, Wendell, Knightdale, Rocky Mount, Wilson, and Wake Forest.  

Key differentiators about GSK and Zebulon: 

• Our commitment to inclusion is seen as a critical advantage of ours  

• Our focus on cultivating a positive work environment that cares for our employees  

• Demonstrated opportunities for continued career growth driven by individual ambition 

• Leaders that care about their teams and growth of both individuals and the company  

• A priority focus on Safety and Quality 

• Clean and GMP compliant work environment     

• Onsite cafeteria                                 

• Onsite gym                

• Temperature-controlled climate                                  

• Licensed, onsite Health & Wellness clinic   

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Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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