# Technical Specialist (Site Forward Deployed Engineer)

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Barnard Castle, County Durham
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Specialist (Site Forward Deployed Engineer) to join our Global Supply Chain (GSC) Digital and Technology function at our manufacturing site in Barnard Castle, UK.

This is a new strategic role aimed at providing on-site technology expertise, leadership, product engagement, and delivery support for GSK's key manufacturing sites. The role acts as the interface between local business stakeholders and global digital product teams.

As the technical specialist, you will apply AI-native engineering methods to validate business value, technical feasibility, and governance requirements to provide evidence-based stop-or-continue recommendations.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Embed with strategic GSC sites and business teams to understand operational challenges, workflows, data, constraints, and high-value opportunities.

- Translate priority Smart Manufacturing, AI, Data, and Digital opportunities into clearly framed, measurable use cases and executable technical solutions.

- Design, build, and validate working PoCs, PoVs, and MVPs using real site data, systems, and workflows.

- Provide hands-on engineering across AI, data, integration, applications, and automation.

- Make evidence-based continue, adapt, or stop recommendations based on demonstrated business value, technical feasibility, adoption potential, risk, and scalability.

**About You:** This role would suit a highly motivated person who has strong experience of designing, developing, and validating AI-enabled digital solutions and Smart Manufacturing capabilities within complex manufacturing and business environments.

**Benefits:** We offer an agile working culture, and you can explore flexible working opportunities with our hiring team.

**Closing Date:** Monday 30th of November 2026 (COB).

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## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Data Analysis
- Design Thinking
- DevOps
- Prioritization
- Product Development Research
- Product Roadmapping
- Project Management
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Software Development
- Strategy Deployment
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI) Design
- Python
- Generative AI
- AI agents
- prompt engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AI-assisted development approaches

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