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Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?
A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.
About the role
Global Supply Chain (GSC) is the group within GSK that is responsible for making and supplying medicines and vaccines across the globe. At our manufacturing sites we produce over 2.3 billion medication packs and vaccines doses to 90% of the world's countries.
An automation placement in one of our manufacturing sites will give you hands-on practical application of the theory from university. Our sites produce a huge mix of different products, from tablets and inhalers to primary manufacturing of our active pharmaceutical ingredients.
During your 12 months with us, you’ll gain experience in areas such as:
- Help the site team with automation capital project delivery for new equipment and digital systems.
- Provide business system support to front line teams for new systems.
- Upgrade existing platforms and help deliver cyber security upgrades.
- Work with digital technology teams to deliver machine integration to cloud data analytics platforms, which support machine learning and AI projects.
- Develop skills with automation systems such as PLCs, HMIs, Distributed Control System (DCS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) based equipment using Siemens S7/PCS7; and OPC systems such as Kepware, Manufacturing Execution System (MES) systems based on Aspentech.
- You will be applying the skills you already have learnt at university and developing new skills such as team working, effective communication and time management. You will work with and learn from an experienced team of multi-disciplined engineers. They will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential.
Who are we looking for?
- Strong people skills
- Passion for innovative automation solutions and their use in real world applications
- Awareness of pharmaceutical production processes and current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and Good Laboratory Practice
- Time management and organisational skills
- An awareness of industrial networks
- Able to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK Culture
Please read below about the 2 different locations/roles we are recruiting for across our Industrial Placements. Please note, these are distinct placements and so when you apply you will be able to select preferences of where you would like to be placed if successful. We will accommodate your preference where possible.
Role/Location 1: Barnard Castle
The Barnard Castle site is in the Northeast of England and is sited within the County Durham countryside. Barnard Castle is a key secondary site for GSK with a large number of New Products coming through development at site. We manufacture and supply a huge range of different pharmaceutical products from Sterile Products (Syringes and Vials) to Liquid Inhalations and Dermatologicals. We have recently opened a new state of the art aseptic digital facility producing biopharmaceuticals.
This role will provide you with an opportunity to work alongside an experienced automation engineering team and digital technology teams to deliver capital projects within a highly regulated environment.
Role/Location 2: Ware
Ware is the largest GSK site in the UK with a thriving early talent community. The Ware Global Supply Chain site manufactures and supplies oral solid dose tablets (for HIV and oncology) and respiratory devices (for asthma and COPD) to over 140 countries, as well as to patients participating in clinical trials, playing a key role in new product introduction. Ware site is located less than a mile from the station, with regular rail links through to London Liverpool Street, taking around 45 minutes.
Automation roles at Ware are based either in the capital projects team or in engineering equipment teams who work closely with the equipment which make our medicines. In the Capital Projects team, you will lead automation and electrical projects, develop project management skills, and contribute to sustainability and Smart Manufacturing initiatives. Within the engineering equipment team, you will work with engineers of other disciplines to solve day to day problems, improve equipment efficiencies and implement continuous improvement ideas. Wherever you are placed at GSK Ware you will gain invaluable experience in engineering, construction, safety, and project controls within the pharmaceutical industry.
What do we offer you?
- Salary of £21,400, plus a bonus
- Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs
- On-the-job experience, training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching and mentoring
- A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
- You will join IP Unite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee
- Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students
