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Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
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.
Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for the Automation Engineer Industrial Placement at GSK today!
The role
An opportunity exists for a candidate with a strong Automation/Control or Electrical Engineering background to work alongside the Automation team. This role will provide an opportunity to:
- 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 including Distributed Control System (DCS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) based equipment using Siemens S7/PCS7. OPC systems based on Kepware, data systems based on Azure and 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.
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.
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
- Good Microsoft Excel and Word skills
- Able to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK’s culture
What do we offer you?
- A salary of £21,000, plus a bonus
- Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs and pension plan membership
- On-the-job experience and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring and training programs
- A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
- You will join a GSK Industrial Placement community of over 250 students across the UK and business areas
- Access to LinkedIn groups to enable the new Industrial Placement community to network and connect before start date
Let’s do this!
