Onsite
📍 Location: Tres Cantos
📅 Application deadline: 1 June 2026
GSC R&D Engineering Services delivers facilities management and capital projects for R&D sites. We are looking for a proactive Site Engineer to support site operations, ensuring safe, reliable and compliant facilities. You will manage engineering and capital projects, drive reliability and sustainability improvements, and work closely with operations, EHS, service partners and suppliers.
🔨 Key responsibilities
Lead and support engineering capital projects from initiation to handover, ensuring compliance with statutory and GSK engineering standards.
Monitor engineering performance (maintenance adherence, MTTR, disruptions) and act as first escalation point for on‑site issues. Deliver risk mitigation plans from engineering gap assessments and manage corrective actions.
Champion engineering controls: Permit to Work, Change Control, Operational Occurrence Reporting and EHS improvement initiatives.
Support audits and implement improvements from findings, CAPAs and alerts.
Drive energy‑efficiency and sustainability projects to improve facility performance. Serve as technical authority/deputy for the site where competent, and oversee vendor/service‑partner delivery.
Establish robust maintenance regimes and PPMs with local/regional teams and service partners. Deputize for the Site Operations Manager/Director when required and participate in site crisis response on rotation.
🎓 What we’re looking for
Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial or Electrical). Master’s preferred.
Proven experience in facilities engineering, operations or capital delivery (R&D or pharmaceutical environment desirable).
Strong knowledge of HVAC, utilities and site infrastructure.
Experience with project delivery, risk management, audits and CAPA.
Solid stakeholder management and vendor oversight skills.
Excellent communication in Spanish and English.
Analytical, pragmatic and safety‑focused mindset.
🚀Why join us
Work on high‑visibility projects that directly impact site performance and sustainability.
Cross‑functional role with autonomy and opportunity to influence technical standards.
Development opportunities within a global organization.
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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