Device Engineering Industrial Placement Ware 2025

Early applications are encouraged as candidates will be reviewed regularly and the advert may close at any point.

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.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Networking
• Data analysis and management
• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

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. You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

Education required

To apply for this placement, you must be:

• Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Human Factors Engineering or similar discipline 

Other requirements

•  You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.

If you have already graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.

Language requirement

• Written and spoken fluency in English

Expected start date

• Sept 2025

Duration

• 1 year (approximately)

The role

Overview of the department

Within Medicine Development and Supply sits GSK’s Device Engineering team; an in-house device development group charged with the delivery of robust, patient-centric devices that enable the effective delivery of novel pharmaceuticals.

Device Engineering is a multi-skilled team of Engineers and Scientists who work across all stages of the product and process development lifecycle from concept design and selection through to the regulatory submission and commercial supply.

The core remit of Device Engineering is to ensure that the delivery device meets the following requirements:

• is appropriate for the drug product / formulation it is delivering.
• can be used effectively by the target patient/user population.
• meets all regulatory requirements for CT supply, File and Launch.
• is robust, reliable and can be manufactured at commercial scales of supply to the required quality standards.

Key placement activities

• Work with device development experts to help develop, model and understand the performance of drug delivery devices in one of the following fields; Human Factors Engineering, Computer Aided Engineering (FEA, CFD, multiphysics modelling), manufacturing process development or device project management.
• Learn how GSK develop robust, patient-centric device to deliver medicines.
• Working with stakeholders at different levels across the business.  

Application process

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

• Eligibility Form
• World of GSK Online Assessment
• Written Assessment
• Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

Apply now!