Job description Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Ware Posted Date: Jan 6 2026
GSK's Manufacturing Site at Ware has an opportunity available for a Shift Co-Ordinator in our Warehouse facility. The Warehouse Operator team sits within the Logistics division at the site and is responsible for performing all tasks associated with the movement of materials into, within and onwards from the Ware Manufacturing site.
Reporting to a Warehouse Team Leader you will coordinate day-to-day shift activities in a busy manufacturing and supply environment. You will work with production, quality, maintenance and logistics teams to keep shifts running safely and to plan work that meets volume and quality targets. We value calm decision-making, clear communication and a practical approach to solving problems. This role offers growth, real impact and the chance to help GSK unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
Responsibilities include:
Managing and coordinating all shift activities to meet safety, quality and production targets.
Communicate priorities and handovers between shifts and with other departments.
Monitor production performance and escalate issues that threaten delivery or quality.
Support investigations into deviations and help implement corrective actions.
Coach and support team members to follow procedures and work safely.
Maintain clear and accurate shift records, reports and handover documentation.
Shift Pattern: This role is a shift role which currently operates on DANF (24/5) shift-pattern (which includes night-work). Shifts are 12-hour shifts and operate on Days (circa 7:00 to 19:00) and Nights (circa 19:00 to 7:00) working on a circa 3 (day or night) shift rotation (Monday to Friday).
Please be aware that as the Shift Co-Ordinator you will need to be flexible. Up to 50% of hours worked are outside normal hours, requiring a high degree of self-reliance and ability to assess the impact of non-standard safety and/or quality events.
Please Note: The Warehouse is subject to Known-Consignor status and is subject to stringent external audits. It is therefore a requirement of pre-employment screening for the successful applicant to have references that date back 5 years.
About You:
You will have strong people skills, as well as a proven ability to drive performance. It is imperative in this role that you demonstrate an ability to drive common-thinking with a complete focus on providing solutions. You will be resilient and calm under pressure. You will need to be persuasive, have a strong continuous improvement mindset, and be able to think outside the box and have proven experience dealing with diverse internal and external stakeholder groups. Ideally you will have worked in a highly regulated-industry.
About Ware Manufacturing Site: We are co-located with our R&D colleagues and recently opened a new, state-of-the-art oral solid dose facility at Ware. At this location our scientists, technicians and engineers (from R&D and Global Supply Chain GSC) work collaboratively together (using the latest technologies) to rapidly knowledge transfer and deliver GSK's most innovative, medicines faster and more efficiently. On site we produce over 60 million respiratory inhalers each year with growing demand in future years. The site also processes Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for use both on site and other manufacturing sites in our network.
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE Friday 23rd of January 2026 (COB).
Full understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice and EHS standards
Evidence of managing Improvement activities
Benefits:
GSK offers a range of benefits to its employees, which include, but are not limited to:
Competitive base Salary
Shift allowance and contractual overtime
Annual bonus based on company performance
Opportunities to partake in on-the-job training courses
Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership (accreditations and professional bodies)
Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes
Employee recognition programmes
What we value:
We welcome people who bring curiosity, humility and a practical approach. We are committed to inclusion and to creating a supportive environment where everyone can grow. If you enjoy solving real problems, delivering measurable results, and helping teams succeed, we encourage you to apply. If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage Life at GSK | GSK.
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.
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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