Process Safety Engineer

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At GSK’s Barnard Castle site, we are looking to recruit a Process Safety Engineer to join our team.

GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site and has invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art, bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases, and as a key supplier of some of GSK’s blockbuster products, the site contributes revenues of $2Bn annually.

The engineering team provide technical expertise to support the manufacturing for all production operations across the manufacturing site.

Job Purpose

As a Process Safety Engineer you will provide process safety expertise across the Barnard Castle site, with responsibility for co-ordinating relevant activities to deliver the site’s process safety programme of improvement and ongoing management.

Key responsibilities (include.,):

• Provide process safety expertise at Barnard Castle site as Technical Authority.

• Plan, organise, direct and control activities concerning process safety including assessments, audits, development of solutions and regulatory compliance.

• Support the implementation of the site’s process safety improvement plan and meet site maturity model targets.

• Provide technical support in accordance with the requirements of relevant EHS legislation (in particular DSEAR), GSK Global Engineering Standards, GSK Global EHS policies; this includes relating to incidents, investigations and projects with process safety implications.

• Conduct Process Hazards Identification and Risk Assessment (such as HazID, What-If assessments, asphyxiation, HAC) for new and existing systems and processes.

• Plan, organise and control works, as well as ensure safe working practices are always employed, including CDM.

About You

This role is suited to a motivated person with good influencing, communication, and teamworking skills. A successful candidate will have a passion for understanding and mastering a variety of complex process and safety engineering systems and must have a keen interest in the development and deployment of emerging technologies into beneficial use.

CLOSING DATE for applications: Friday 3rd of July 2026 (COB).

Basic Qualifications / Skills:

• Relevant engineering qualification (eg; Engineering degree) and/or relevant experience working in a Pharmaceutical or highly regulated industry (which includes Manufacturing Environments).

• Technical and operational knowledge of process safety.

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