Career Conversion Programme – VS Operations Engineer

Help us get ahead of disease together with our Vaccines manufacturing. 

Education required: Bachelor's in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, biotechnology or life science.
Other requirements: Demonstrated skill and knowledge with analytical methods, equipment, process, software, cleaning, and facility/utility validation strategies and policy, protocol and report writing and execution.

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English

Expected Start date: As soon as possible

Application deadline: We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.  

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The Career Conversion Programme (CCP) (Train-and-Place with Commitment to Hire) for Advanced Biopharmaceuticals Manufacturing Executives/Professionals is a talent development programme aimed at building the next generation of skilled manpower for Singapore’s Biopharmaceuticals manufacturing industry in anticipation of hiring demand.

The training programme consists of 15 months of local attachment with GSK. Due to the nature of the programme, we can only consider Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents. For more information, please visit Career Conversion Programmes (CCP) for Individuals

A certificate will be given to successful trainees upon completion of the programme.

What will you do?

• To support Manufacturing Operations in the following areas:

  • Manage deviation investigations and CAPAs of high complexity and related to process or technical events.

• Changes through site change control system and SAP data management (eg. BOM)

• Non-process specific training

• Key participant in the continuous process verification platform and be able to explain trends

• Support Manufacturing Operations in tracking process parameters

• Handle Quality and business-continuity risks

• Gap analysis of QMS and Quality Alerts, as well as regulatory guidelines

• Prepare documents and training materials as required to support the activities of the operations department

• Identify, manage and execute improvement initiatives in the following areas:

  • Batch record improvement

  • Process improvement

  • Alarms management

  • Materials management

  • Operational Excellence (OE) initiatives

• Support Manufacturing Operations in executing validation, trials, development and technical transfer activities where necessary.

  • Process optimization

  • Environmental monitoring

  • Routine production issues troubleshooting

• Develop relationship within the value stream team to ensure delivery of production objectives.

• Develop close relationship with other departments which supports production (QA, QC, Engineering, MSAT, SCM) to ensure delivery of production objectives

• Plan, manage and execute deliverables through proper and timely request and utilization of resources to ensure delivery of projects.

• Plan and coordinate effective utilization of ad-hoc team members (operational staff)

What will you learn?

• Manufacturing Operations such as manage technical deviations and CAPAs, manage investigations and troubleshooting of process and equipment issues.

• Change control management

• SOP or MBR revisions

• Continuous improvements

• Audit preparation and management

• Project management

• Validations

• Environment, safety, health and wellness

What are we looking for?

• Experience working in a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) environment

• Experience with safety hazards and safety assessments

• Knowledge in cGMP and safety (biosafety)

• Troubleshooting skills

• Knowledge in Biotechnology process, Lean Six Sigma Tools and Project Management is an advantage

• Effective Communication and team building skills

• Organization skills and project management skills

What do we offer you?

• Understand and experience the GSK Culture

• Work with a diversified team of professionals

• Implement technical knowledge and skills that you have acquired at school

• Apply and develop soft skills such as interpersonal, communications and negotiation skills

• Transport to and from site to MRT stations in centralised locations all across Singapore (only for manufacturing sites)

Let’s do this!

You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website –

Learn more about the application process | GSK

You can learn more about GSK and our careers here https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/careers/

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Need help with your application?

Please email us at [email protected] and let us know how we can help you.

Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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