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Automation Engineer @ Gsknch

Malaysia - Kuala LumpurOnsiteFull-time
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About this role

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Why Consumer Healthcare?

Right now, we’re on an incredible journey as we prepare to become the first independent, 100% focused consumer healthcare company. We’re doing this at a time when the work we do has never mattered more. Better everyday health is about improving the health and wellness of the consumers that we touch every year – over a billion and a half of them – and it goes beyond products. It’s about truly helping people manage their health proactively in different ways as consumer needs evolve.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

We are currently looking for experienced Automation Engineer to be part of our Consumer Healthcare Supply Chain business and this role will be based at Ulu Kelang office. In this role, you will be responsible to manage the development of Automation strategy for the Kuala Lumpur site in accordance with GSK corporate procedures. Other Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that optimal quality of products is safely shipped on time every time by fostering a culture that consistently deliver outstanding safety, quality, service and value to the person at the end of our supply chain. • Responsible for related site engineering technical authority, duty holder responsibilities and adherence of the site to internal and external engineering, quality, EHS and financial standards, both internal and external. • The SME is accountable for:

• Leading activities related to Technical Authority requirements and ensure compliance. • Defining the requirements for managing and controlling the specific risk(s) for which they are accountable. • Ensuring the GSK facility’s compliance with internal written standards and external regulatory requirements and for a specific risk. • Management of OT and other portable programming devices to minimise cyber security risk to the OT environment • To act as the technical expert for the site automation equipment. • Act as a technical liaison engineer for automation elements of Capital Projects. • Undertake process improvement projects to existing automation systems. • Management of additional contractor resource as may be required for small projects. • Ensure that Automation facilities & equipment are maintained and installed to meet site requirements and within agreed budgets. • Work with engineering and site leadership teams to develop an automation strategy and co-ordinate its implementation. • Identify investment opportunities for automation. • Keep up to date with current developments in Engineering & Computing Systems, ensuring best practice at all times. • To ensure that suitable and agree engineering records are maintained relating to installation, removal, alteration, maintenance activities/intervention for the automation equipment on site. • Provide technical support to regulator audits in the area of automation. • Ensure compliance with applicable Haleon policies and procedures – EHS/Engineering Standard, GQP/G, GQMP’s. • Generation of technical reports and documentation – write, revise and approve technical SOP’s relating to area of expertise. • Generate knowledge guides and maintain appropriate library documentation to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements. • Provide technical support to validation projects across the site. • Be actively involved in the development and prototyping of automation technologies across site. • Automation includes systems such as Electronic Batch Records, automated OEE of assets, BMS, Cobot etc.

Why you?

We look for people who appreciate the importance of safety and quality and strive to continuously improve our performance and practices. We work in an open and transparent environment so you’ll be someone who treats others with respect and integrity – as you will be treated yourself.

Ideally, we are looking for someone with:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Instrumentation) ​ • Min of 3 years working experience in Engineering of GMP environment. • Good behavioral approach, acts with integrity, an ambassador for engineering. • Recognized expert for specified field. • Good understanding of Quality Management System. • Proven ability to deliver small automation based improvement projects on time. • Experience in a wide range of automation and control technologies, field and control instrumentation. • Strong understanding of hazardous area design and installation standards. • Able to prioritize and reallocate work to meet project/site timelines. • Knowledge in RCA. • Familiar with 6’s lean management, FMEA methodology. • Can work in a fast environment paced environment and work at flexible/tended working hours.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In Consumer Healthcare we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

*LI-GSK Job Posting End Date 2026-08-24 Equal Opportunities Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions. Adjustment or Accommodations Request If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. Note to candidates The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.

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