Capital Engineering Lead

Job title: Capital Engineering Lead

Location: Parma, Italy

Employment type: Permanent, Full-Time

Closing date for applications: 11 November 2026

Position Summary

As a Capital Engineering Lead you will support the delivery of Capital Projects within the site capital project team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating the submission of Building Control and Planning applications
• Coordination of Procurement Plan preparation and submission to GSK
• Preparation / update of Health and Safety File
• Issuing and receiving of permits
• Coordination of change control
• Coordinating and leading site surveys by sub-contractors
• Leading and coordinating stage gate reviews
• Coordinating Constructability Reviews
• Coordinating FATs and attendance by team members
• Responsible for the safe delivery of projects to budget and schedule
• Ensure good communication between engineering disciplines
• Maintain effective dialogue with other project engineers
• Ensure an effective risk management process is adopted
• Ensure adherence to HSE requirements within sphere of influence
• Effective coordination of all elements of the project, with a hands-on, can-do attitude where necessary
• Good stakeholder management and client interfacing during pre-construction, construction, commissioning and validation
• Development of relationships with internal and external customers and organizations
• Responsible for ensuring delivery of scopes in line with department KPIs, as far as the PE can influence

• Ensure compliance with all relevant EHS and Quality procedures

• Ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and policies, including the Construction (Design and Management) 2015 regulations and other relevant UK Law
• Implementing and maintaining safety measures, including carrying out risk assessments and ensuring all construction and demolition works are carried out under an approved safe system of works

• Managing resources effectively, including securing site-based resources and coordinating with production for downtime requirements

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills

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

• Degree in an appropriate discipline of Engineering.
• Engineering experience and experience of project delivery (Cost, Resource, Schedule, Risk).
• Proven experience in managing multi-disciplined pharmaceutical projects or other relevant industries is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of the site QMS and Regulatory Requirements (Safety and Quality) relative to the defined process.
• Experience in change management methodology and advocate of GPS principles.
• Knowledge of historical, current, and anticipated manufacturing plant and equipment. The job holder will have sufficient scientific and engineering credibility to effectively interface with and influence key stakeholders, internal and external.
• Broad knowledge of professional engineering environment, associated disciplines, and commercial awareness.
• Demonstrated capability and leadership to effectively manage a team.
• Fluent in Italian and English, both written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

Additional Accountability

• Promoting a can-do attitude / growth mindset.
• Leading improvement activities, initiating and taking ownership of ideas.
• Encouraging others to put forward new ideas.
• Participating in cross-functional improvement activities teams and co-operating with other functions.
• Effective decision making within their sphere of influence.

Complexity

• Diversity of processes and equipment.
• Many processes unique to GSK.
• Stretched understanding of equipment limits due to NPI applications.
• Must achieve goals via technical resource with and without direct line authority.
• Essential multifunctional and external interactions.
• Need to articulate technical information to and from a variety of third parties.

What We Offer:

• Permanent contract in a very Inclusive environment
• Flexible Benefits
• Smart Working up to 50% for eligible roles
• Company Healthcare Plan
• Integrative pension fund
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Sustainable Mobility Programme
• Company canteen
• Performance Reward

Please note that international relocation support cannot be provided; therefore, only candidates who are already based in the indicated country can be considered.

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Skills

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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