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Are you looking for a career where you can help positively impact the health of billions of people?
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.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get ahead together.
Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for the Automation Future Leaders Graduate Programme at GSK today!
About the role
We are looking for highly motivated engineering graduates who are keen to develop into the future engineering, operational and technical leaders. Working at our manufacturing sites you will help to ensure we have the latest, safe, efficient and reliable processes and equipment to deliver life-saving medicines and vaccines to people in 90 % of the world’s countries. This role will enable you to develop your skills in an industry that’s making radical changes to the way it develops and manufactures products.
Ahead together with tailored training and career development!
If you’re an engineering graduate with the talent and ambition to lead others, we’ll help you develop the expertise to become one of our Future Leaders.
Over three rotations, our Future Leaders graduate programme will challenge and support you to grow professionally and personally. You will have challenging rotations in business-critical roles where you will have the opportunity to meet senior leaders and network with other graduates. You will also improve your technical skills while gaining valuable leadership expertise.
You will have a generous development budget to accelerate your learning, whether it is for technical, professional, personal or leadership skills.
What will you do?
At GSK you will be working at manufacturing sites that supply medicines to patients around the world. On the Automation Future Leaders Programme, you will build an understanding of the state-of-the-art technologies we use and have the opportunity to work with (and in) cross-functional, multi-cultural teams – delivering business critical projects. You can expect to develop your knowledge and gain experience in the following areas:
- Introducing new digital technologies to transform our business
- Optimize the performance of the control systems that are part of our manufacturing operations, e.g., maintaining and troubleshooting site control systems
- Deliver automation projects, such as defining and implementing design improvements, upgrading, and installing control systems and robotics systems, and ensuring that suppliers and site equipment comply with international standards
- Testing and commissioning
- Identify and mitigate potential Cyber security risks or vulnerabilities related to Operational Technology hardware and software
- Gain hands-on knowledge of digital technologies, the business, and the role that Automation plays in supplying our patients
You’ll be excited by the thought of
- Developing your skills in an industry that’s making radical changes to the way it develops and manufactures products
- Building an understanding of the state-of-the-art technologies we use
- Working with (and in) cross-functional, multi-cultural teams – delivering business critical projects
- Managing multi-discipline engineering teams
- Having a generous development budget to accelerate your learning
- Being part of a company aiming to unite science, talent, and technology to get ahead of disease together
You’ll need
- A relevant engineering degree and be keen to learn
- To be technically minded, with a passion for machines, automation, and manufacturing processes
- The ability to work with and build relationships with key stakeholders
- To be a self-motivated and proactive graduate
- To be enthusiastic and driven to succeed
- To be a natural team worker
- The ability to adapt to change and stay focused under pressure
- To be analytical and process driven with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and a gift for solving problems
- A genuine interest in the healthcare industry
Our Future Leaders Graduate Programme is designed to accelerate the development of graduates who don’t have significant previous professional work experience in the area to which they are applying. Of course, many graduates who join the programme have worked while studying or after graduation. If you’ve already developed substantial experience working in a professional role in your sector, while you would be able to apply for this programme, you may also want to look at direct entry roles in our businesses, as these may be the best way to build on your existing skills and expertise and develop a career at GSK.
Benefits include
- A competitive salary: £31,400
- An annual bonus based on company performance
- Relocation Allowance (eligibility will be confirmed once your first location is confirmed)
- Access to healthcare and well-being programmes, pension plan membership, savings programmes, time off and childcare support
- Employee recognition programmes, which reward exceptional achievements
- A generous training budget
- On-the-job experience and formal and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring and formal training programmes
Let’s do this!
