EHS Advisor - 12 Month FTC/Secondment

GlaxoSmithKline; Montrose; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Healthcare & wellbeing programmes

Pension plan

Employee share schemes

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom seeks an EHS Advisor to ensure compliant and safe manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients. You will support the EHS Lead and site teams, maintain the EHS management system, and drive continuous improvement.

The role also involves internal audits, incident investigations, regulatory liaison with HSE and SEPA, and participation in inspections. A hybrid work model and attractive benefits support work–life balance.

Qualifications

• Experience within an EHS environment.
• Strong understanding of EHS policies and processes.
• Hold NEBOSH general certificate.

Responsibilities

• Support the EHS Lead and teams to maintain high EHS standards on site.
• Maintain the EHS management system to ensure compliance and drive improvement.
• Assist in safety reporting and investigations with focus on high hazard activities.

Skills

Data-Driven Decision Making

Data Integrity

Digital Fluency

GxP Regulations

Incident Investigations

Influencing Without Authority

Lean Management

Problem Solving

Regulatory Compliance

Risk Assessments

Risk Awareness

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Job description

Job Purpose

The Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) advisor team advise on legal and other requirements affecting EHS at the site. Their purpose is to ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, and internal Engineering and EHS standards in order to ensure safe manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients. They also ensure that there is continuous improvement and adoption of best practice/best available techniques for EHS matters. They provide direct support to the site’s operational areas and support functions and also participate in the delivery of EHS training and awareness.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the EHS Lead, EHS team members and various directorates to ensure that EHS is maintained to a high standard on site and that there is safe manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
• Maintaining the site’s EHS management system to ensure compliance with legal and other requirements while also facilitating continuous improvement.
• Assist in the upkeep of the safety reporting database and drive the timely investigation and closure of unusual incident reports (UIRs), with particularly focus on corrective and preventative action for high hazard activities, as well as providing support to line managers to assist them with their investigations.
• Ensuring that all personnel at site comply with the requirements of GSK's life saving rules.
• Lead and contribute to EHS self inspection and internal audits and provide support to the site during regulatory and other inspections or audits.
• Maintain liaison with other GSK business areas, external EHS consultants, outside Industry and Trade Bodies and with regulators such as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
• Representing the EHS team on project matters and supporting the safe delivery of projects at site.
• Keeping up to date with modern processes and techniques with reference to EHS.
• Support the EHS Lead in devising strategic opportunities to continually improve EHS controls on the site and contribute and support a learning environment for EHS topics to all staff on site.

Closing Date for Applications: Tuesday 15th of September 2026 (COB).

Basic Qualifications

• Experience within an EHS environment, ideally within a high hazard environment.
• Strong understanding of EHS policies and processes.
• Hold NEBOSH general certificate.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included.

• We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
• We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK. Skills Data-Driven Decision Making, Data Integrity, Digital Fluency, GxP Regulations, Incident Investigations, Influencing Without Authority, Lean Management, Problem Solving, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Assessments, Risk Awareness.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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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. If you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.