Building Mechanic

  • GSK
  • King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
  • Full Time
Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - King of Prussia
Posted Date: Aug 25 2025

We make and supply medicines and vaccines all around the globe and our teams own every production stage, from creating quality products at our manufacturing sites to designing effective supply forecasting and regulatory inspections; all powered by digital, data and analytics. We operate at impressive scale, producing over 1.7 billion packs of medicine and 767 vaccine doses in 2021.

We continue to modernize, so we can launch even more new products at speed whilst turbo-charging delivery across our entire portfolio through our relentless focus on quality, safety, and service. The way we work will change. For some, the shift in technology and products will be revolutionary. Our R&D pipeline demands a new kind of supply chain, and we need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of automation and robotics so we can work smarter together.

As a Building Mechanic, the responsibility will be to operate, maintain, and install equipment used for operation within the GMP 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:

  • Operate, maintain, and repair steam boilers and related equipment including deaerators, pumps, valves, regulators, hot water generators, humidifiers, steam traps, and associated control systems.
  • Operate, maintain, and repair chilled water systems including chillers, pumps, cooling towers, and control systems.
  • Operate, maintain, and repair high purity water systems including multimedia filtration systems, water softeners, reverse osmosis systems, wfi distillation units, clean steam generators, pumps, and associated control systems.
  • Operate, maintain, and repair direct expansion air conditioning or refrigeration systems and components including compressors, coils, valves, regulators, and associated control systems.
  • Operate, maintain, and repair building control devices including pneumatic valves, thermostats, controllers, relays, and transmitters. Operate, maintain, and repair ventilation equipment including air handlers, exhaust fans, cooling and heating coils, and associated control systems and instrumentation.
  • Operate, maintain, and repair compressed air systems including compressor packages, desiccant dryers, valves, and associated control systems.
  • Inspect, replace, align, adjust, and lubricate mechanical system components including bearings, gear boxes, belt drives, shaft couplings, mechanical seals, and related devices.
  • Observe and record equipment operating conditions by inspecting equipment operation and completing appropriate logs. Monitor the building automation, automated utility controls systems, and life safety alarm system. Investigate, remediate, and report alarms to appropriate personnel.
  • Safely perform preventative and corrective maintenance tasks on utility equipment and systems. Make recommendations for maintenance tasks and frequencies and procedural/operational changes to enhance equipment life and maintainability. Identify spare parts and consumables necessary to perform these tasks
Why you? Basic Qualifications:

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

  • High school diploma
  • 5+ years of experience in engineering or maintaining industrial process or utility equipment.
  • 2nd Shift Role
Preferred Qualifications:

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

  • Familiar with cGMPs, regulatory guidelines, governmental codes, and standard operating procedure.
  • Strong communications skills, both verbal and written.
  • Skills and knowledge to serve as a resource to less experienced employees
  • The ability to work rotating shift work.
  • Work safely, independently, and without direct supervision.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary t o learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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 were 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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Job ID: 490721244
Originally Posted on: 8/25/2025

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