Are you looking for an opportunity to enhance your instrumentation and metrology skills in collaborative team environment? If so, this is the role for you.

As Instrumentation Technician you will be responsible to maintain instrumentation used for the operation of manufacturing, process, and facility equipment at a biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Provides maintenance and repair services to support the biopharmaceutical process. Performs repairs and calibration maintenance to process control instrumentation, safety instrumented systems, or other instrumentation for manufacturing equipment - HVAC systems, GMP utilities, and plant (non-GMP) utilities.

• Maintains, repairs, calibration, and installation of control elements including sensors, switches, transmitters, positioners, signal conditioners, and related devices.

• Use of Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), Input/Output (I/O) schematics, logic diagrams, and diagnostic tools to locate, troubleshoot, and repair malfunctioning equipment within a process control or electrical system.

• Safely shutdown, lock out, and perform verification of zero energy for systems or equipment to allow for inspection, maintenance, or renovation to instrumentation and control systems.

• Use of calibration and other computer system databases by entering information, retrieving records, and generating reports.

• Coordinate with vendors to procure replacement instrumentation and related hardware. Provide support to ensure that the instrumentation spare parts inventory is maintained.

• Works independently or in a team setting in compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other applicable regulations to perform routine and non-routine (corrective) maintenance.

• Good communication skills for interfacing within the maintenance group, line managers, and with internal customers at the facility (i.e., production, engineering, validation, QC, and QA teams). Communication is critical to effectively support these groups alerting them to the technician's scope of work, how it impacts those groups, and awareness to any issues discovered during the execution of maintenance activities.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• High school diploma or GED equivalent

• 1+ years’ experience as an instrument technician in an industrial (oil, nuclear, power, manufacturing) or pharmaceutical environment with maintenance responsibility.

• Familiarity with cGMP’s, regulatory guidelines, and standard operating procedures.

• Understanding of P&IDs, electrical, and I/O schematics

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Vocational-technical school graduate / associate's degree, certified training via established trade organizations (i.e., ISA, mechanical / piping / electrical trades)

• ability to perform job duties with limited supervision.

• Ability to work in a multifunctional team environment

• Knowledge of upgrading and installing controlled manufacturing equipment and calibration database instrumentation and calibration

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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.

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