Job description
Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Oct 30 2024
GSC R&D Engineering Services provides Facilities Management and Capital Projects delivery for Technical R&D sites within GSC’s Engineering and EHS organization.
The Site Safety Specialist will establish and maintain a culture that embraces safe working, protection of the environment, a sustainable healthy workforce and continuous safety performance improvement in the delivery of R&D site facilities, engineering, and capital project services. The role will ensure that Safe Systems of Work and GSK EHS Programs are embedded and effective in the management of safety risks carried out by our Service Partners and Third-Party Contractors.
This role will foster a culture of transparency and trust with operations teams, service partners and customers by being present a minimum of 4 days on site per week. The home site will be Stevenage, with additional duties in Harlow and Addenbrookes.
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
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In this role you will
* Perform management oversight of maintenance, operations, construction, and engineering work activities across a range of functional areas on site including, but not limited to, mechanical plant rooms, research laboratories, warehouse/storage, offices, amenity spaces but with a primary focus on gas management and laboratory safety. You must feel confident to speak up and stop any operational process where unsafe working practices are being carried out and advise those concerned of the appropriate action.
* Monitor and review service partner and contractor project and task specific risk assessments and method statements to ensure they are in sufficient detail and proportionate to the level of risk. Ensure that suitable controls are in place to reduce the risk level to as low as is reasonably practicable, with special focus on gas management and laboratory activities.
* Oversee non-routine high-risk work activities performed by Service Partners and third-party contractors in compliance with the site Permit to Work system. Train, embed and monitor the Permit to Work process to ensure safe systems of work are in place and in use. Ensure that appropriate communications are issued, and the required controls are in place before work starts, e.g., isolation of hazardous energy and materials, and that the work area and/or equipment are handed back in a safe condition for use after work completion.
* Identify and assess safety information needs for service partner employees, Third-Party Contractors and visitors attending site. Monitor conformance with site safety policies by Service Partner and Contractor employees and take corrective action when required.
* Investigate adverse safety events, ensure immediate corrective actions are taken to promptly restore normal conditions or eliminate hazards, and engage key stakeholders before the affected activity / operation restarts. Incorporate techniques for Root Cause Analysis so that resulting corrective actions address not only the symptoms but also to underlying causes of issues identified, in order to prevent recurrence.
* Support, facilitate and lead where necessary on-site incident investigations to ensure root cause and corrective/preventative actions are identified and immediate action is taken to promptly restore normal conditions.
* Support effective follow up and close out of all corrective actions following from incidents, audits, inspections, and observations.
* Analyse the types and causes of adverse safety events over time to identify trends, assess the effectiveness of corrective & preventative measures and implement appropriate actions to avoid recurrence.
* Manage safety indicators, metrics, objectives and targets consistent with the RDES-specific risks and opportunities. Measure and report performance against established safety objectives to relevant stakeholders.
* Reward and celebrate safety achievements by RDES GSK and Service Partner staff. Apply discipline and enforcement mechanisms when there has been intentional breach of site safety policies & procedures, or failure to operate within GSK's Values or the Code of Conduct.
* Assist in the development and execution of Safety related training materials. Manage Investigation tracking for RDES Europe region.
* Foster a culture of transparency and trust by ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and communicated. Escalate significant safety risks at site, business, and company levels so that they are addressed and mitigated in a transparent manner.
* Interpret legal and GSK requirements associated with safety management systems and advise RDES on achieving compliance. Stay abreast of regulatory changes and external trends and translate impacts of emerging changes to RDES.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* Holds degree in Business, Science or Engineering
* Holds NEBOSH – National Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals or the National General Certificate (or equivalent)
* Broad experience in Health & Safety within a pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or other large, regulated industry.
* Broad working knowledge of gas cylinder management and laboratory safety.
* Experience with facility operations and/or engineering.
* Experience with Construction Safety and Safe Systems of Work, including but not limited to Permit to Work Systems
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
* Membership of a professional organisation e.g. IOSH Certified Member
* Displays knowledge of the Research & Development process and understands GxP requirements.
* Ability to establish strong working relationships with key external contract partners, to enable their delivery of safe site services in agreement with established contracts.
* Ability to act as a role model for applying standards to ensure compliance.
Closing Date for Applications – Wednesday 13th November 2024 (COB)
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At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. R&D is committed to discovering and delivering transformational vaccines and medicines to prevent and change the course of disease. Science and technology are coming together in a way they never have before, and we have strong tech-enabled capabilities that allow us to build a deeper understanding of the patient, human biology and disease mechanisms, and transform medical discovery. We are revolutionising the way we do R&D. We’re uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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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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