Site Safety Specialist

7 days ago


Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom GSK Full time

Site Name:
UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage

Posted Date:
Apr 8 2024

Site Safety Specialist

_ Closing Date for Applications - 22nd April (COB)_


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.

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 programmes.


We embrace modern work practices; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage _Life at GSK | GSK_

In this role you will:

  • Perform management oversight of field safety risks arising from maintenance, operations and engineering project work activities across a range of functional areas on site including mechanical plant rooms, electrical substations, research laboratories, warehouse/storage, offices and amenity spaces.
  • Conduct monitoring of routine daytoday site operations work activities to provide assurance that Service Partner methodologies for managing safety risks are proportionate to the nature and extent of risks introduced by the work activity. Ensure that risk assessment mitigation plans are applied in an effective manner and suitable controls are in place to reduce the risk of adverse safety events to a level that is as a low as reasonably practicable.
  • Oversee nonroutine highrisk work activities performed by Service Partners 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 precautions 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 Third-Party Contractors and visitors including awareness training on the risks associated with hazardous areas/materials on site (such as asbestos containing materials). Support the delivery of contractor site induction training and ensure that contractor employees are provided with up to date site safety information. 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.

_ Why you?_


Qualifications & Skills:

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

  • Broad Safety and Engineering experience within a regulated industry.
  • Broad working knowledge of Facilities Management operations.
  • Excellent interpersonal, presentation and persuasive skills to successfully interact with managers at all levels and the ability to manage internal relations with site customer base.
  • Strong ability to act as a motivator of change.
Preferred

Qualifications & Skills:

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

  • Displays knowledge of the Research & Development process and understands GxP requirements.
  • Ability to establish strong working relationships with key external contract partners, to deliver appropriate site services in agreement with established contracts.

Why Us?


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 organization where people can thrive.

Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equa
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