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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.
We have several engineering placements available for talented engineers to support our engineering and manufacturing teams in a world class pharmaceutical factory and in our global headquarters. Roles may include some, or all the following:
- Problem solving and continuous improvement work across a range of pharmaceutical production machinery and processes.
- Identifying safety, quality and process performance and efficiency improvements through analysing machine data and audits.
- Increasing and maintaining the reliability of our machines.
- Providing day to day engineering support.
- Assisting in all processes associated with implementing new processes and equipment.
- Generating engineering documentation, change controls and production reports.
- Taking responsibility for your own projects throughout the year.
- Learning more about the varied role of engineering in the pharmaceutical industry.
You will be applying the skills you already have and developing new skills such as team working, problem solving and building relationships. You will work with and learn from an experienced team of engineers; they will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your full potential.
Who are we looking for?
- A passion for engineering in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment
- Enjoy identifying and implementing solutions to problems
- Attention to detail
- Drive to get things done
- To be a team player
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Excel and data skills – you will learn how to use Power BI
- Strong Communication & Influencing Skills
- An interest in digital solutions will be required for some roles
- Ability to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK Culture.
You should apply for this role if you have a genuine interest in learning more about engineering in the pharmaceutical industry. You will be self-motivated, results-driven, positive, enthusiastic and enjoy identifying and implementing solutions to problems.
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: GSK House (London)
The GSC Engineering and EHS group is mainly based at our global headquarters in Londin but can also count on the presence of people in our Global Supply Chain sites.
The GSC Engineering & EHS Function is comprised of the following groups: Global Capital Projects, Engineering Technical Services, Serialisation- anti counterfeit measures, Environment Health and Safety and Automation. You will be based in Engineering Technical Services. We design standards and policies and provide technical expertise to support and align our GSC network with the intent to deliver more speed and efficiency
During your time on placement, you will have the opportunity to:
- Contribute to the deployment of a Machine Learning application to improve reliability of key manufacturing equipment in the Global Supply Chain Network
- Contribute to the development and testing of digital twin application Proof of Concept (PoC) to support the manufacturing site engineering activities, such as maintenance.
- Interact with the Global manufacturing network, liaising with industry expert engineers to deploy cutting edge digital application for GSK
To be successful in this role you will need to have a passion for digital innovation and an interest in Machine Learning and/or Building Information Model (BIM) and Revit (Autodesk).
Role/Location 2: Worthing
GSK Worthing recently celebrated 60 years of manufacturing pharmaceutical products. Our key product is an antibiotic, and we manufacture approx. 50 million packs per year supplying patients around the world. Our site is situated on the South Coast about 30 minutes from Brighton and 1 hour by train from London, offering a good degree of extracurricular activities outside of work.
GSK Worthing has opportunities for engineering placement students to work with industry experts in our Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS) and Continuous Improvement (CI) engineering teams.
A placement student in EHSS will have the opportunity to lead continuous improvement initiatives in automation, data management, and developing dashboards for key performance indicators to give visibility of our performance across key business areas. There is a lot of variety within the role from formulating procedures that operate in line with company and legal standards to working within our committed team to delivering our 2030 sustainability ambition through projects related to energy management, waste reduction and water usage optimisation.
A placement student in the CI engineering team will have the opportunity to pick up a wide variety of continuous improvement skills that can be applied to numerous positions during your career. During your time on placement, you will get the opportunity to get involved with end-to-end activities from warehousing, manufacturing, packaging, quality all the way to operations engineering. You will gain a strong understanding of lean manufacturing (GPS), continuous improvement mindset, and problem solving. You will also lead continuous improvement frameworks working with small functional teams across the site targeting top priority challenges and help train and coach others.
If you are a person who enjoys working in a dynamic environment, where no two days are the same, and are seeking an opportunity to interact with a range of teams across the business, an engineering placement at GSK Worthing will appeal to you.
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
