Mechanical Tradesperson

**Site Name**: UK - North Ayrshire - Irvine
**Posted Date**: Dec 6 2024

**Mechanical Tradesperson**

**_Closing Date for Applications - 27th December (COB)_**

GSK are recruiting a Mechanical Tradesperson on a full-time and permanent basis at the Irvine site.

We are seeking someone that is passionate and able to ‘roll up their sleeves’ when needed and in return we will offer fantastic career progression and the opportunity to engage with Senior Stakeholders, allowing you to shape and contribute to the success of the business.

**Job Purpose**

You will provide a maintenance service on mechanical equipment and record results in accordance with appropriate internal and external standards. You will provide support for mechanical breakdowns and assess any mechanical safety issues.

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.

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

In this role you will:

- Maintain and test a wide range of process plant equipment to ensure mechanical safety and quality compliance.
- Diagnose and repair process plant equipment and mechanical faults including escalation where necessary to enhance production performance.
- Inspection of process plant equipment to verify the correct and safe operation. Conduct suitable handover to ensure job status is communicated to appropriate person.
- Verify and support the installation, operation and performance of new project installations as part of commissioning to ensure validation.
- Accurately Record and Report all maintenance activities to provide documented evidence of analysis and audit trail.
- Provide coaching & mentoring to apprentices and new technicians to contribute to their development. Ensure all activities comply with site safety procedure and safe systems of work including issuing and accepting permits for mechanical systems including electrical isolations.

**_ Why you?_**

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

- Knowledge of maintaining process plant and mechanical equipment
- Able to comply with internal and external engineering and regulatory standards
- Experience of working with process and processing systems including hazardous area.
- Strong I.T. Skills, Working knowledge of MERPS/SAP
- Knowledge of plant operations and regulations; GMP; Safety
- Interpersonal skills; Good communications (written/oral), team player. Organisational skills; Practical/methodical/forward thinking.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

- Served a recognised engineering apprenticeship and educated to NVQ Level 3 and/or HNC in relevant discipline.

**Why GSK?**

**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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important t