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    4. Engineering Facilities Management Industrial Placement Stevenage 2024
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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.

    Workplace, Real Estate & Facilities (WREF) in GSK is a global function with approx. 200 internal staff supported by a network of over 2,000 contract staff around the world. WREF’s portfolio includes 265 sites across 74 countries including Research & Development labs, manufacturing and logistics facilities and commercial offices equating to £1.4 billion of annual spend.

    WREF’s key activities include

    • The strategic planning of the Real Estate portfolio to keep up with market trends and ensure our facilities are in the right locations to support our business
    • Collaborating with our Facilities Management suppliers to enable our WREF sites to deliver to our customer’s needs
    • Providing environments that are safe, legal, compliant and sustainable

    What you will do

    An Engineering placement in one of our sites will give you hands-on practical application of the theory from university. Our sites are key cutting-edge Research and Development facilities within GSK.

    During your placement with us, you’ll gain experience in areas such as:

    • Developing a thorough understanding of the equipment, plant and processes used at the site including design of systems and the ability to problem solve
    • Utilise Specialist Engineering Software
    • Replacing and innovating existing systems on site
    • Supporting delivery of the Engineering, Inspection and Reliability programmes.
    • Investigating new engineering technologies to improve plant and maintenance techniques
    • Development and implementation of maintenance best practice
    • Specifying new equipment and components
    • Performing root cause analysis investigations
    • Contributing to safety and quality risk assessments
    • Carrying out continuous improvement activities to ensure good engineering practice
    • Developing skills for leading and managing groups of peers or contractors to achieve the above
    • Developing skills in project management and planning

    You will utilise your existing abilities while also learning new ones such as:

    • Teamwork
    • Efficient communication with the WREF team, clients, and contactors
    • Time management

    You will work with and learn from an experienced team of multi-disciplinary engineers. Throughout the year, they will coach and mentor you to help you reach your full potential. On every project and from every person you encounter, there is something to learn and build new or pre-existing talents.

    You will collaborate closely with everyone in the team on a number of projects taking place on site, ranging from installation projects, calibration, cyber security and environmental projects to meet GSK's 2030 Environmental and Sustainability Targets.

    Who are we looking for?

    • A passion for engineering
    • To be eager to learn from industry professionals
    • Attention to detail
    • Strong analytical skills
    • To be organised with a drive to get things done
    • To be a team player
    • A continuous improvement mindset
    • Excel / Data skills
    • An interest in digital solutions will be required for some roles
    • Communication Skills
    • A good work ethic
    • To be able to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK’s culture

    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 IPUnite, 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