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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.

    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.

    Your role as a materials scientist will be a technical lab-based role, which will give you valuable hands-on experience, working on a wide range of techniques to characterise the physical properties of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), excipients, drug products and / or finished products. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team of analytical scientists, material scientists, dosage form and particle sciences experts.

    Key roles and responsibilities

    • Supporting and leading business critical projects to assist the global GSK networkwith proactive and reactive work packages. These projects include material change programmes for security of supply, as well as Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations for manufacturing and quality issues.
    • Providing measurement of data, including interpretation, reporting, and presenting results to customers from other GSK sites globally on different dosage forms e.g., API powders, excipients, blends, granules, suspensions, tablets etc.
    • Gaining competency on a wide variety of physical property equipment and techniques, supporting small and large molecule products, such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Particle Size Distribution (PSD), X-ray Particle Diffraction (XRPD), Micro-Flow Imaging (MFI) etc.
    • Responsible for calibration and maintenance of laboratory equipment such as balances, safety cabinets, solvents, waste etc., ensuring quality and safety in all that we do.
    • Support of key safety metrics, departmental audits, continuous improvement, and sustainability projects

    You will be applying the skills you already have learnt at university, as well as developing new skills such as team working, effective communication, time, and project management. You will work with and learn from a world-class Analytical and Materials Science team.They will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential.

    Who are we looking for?

    • Strong interpersonal skills
    • To be a team player
    • Interest in learning new techniques, which you may have not been exposed to at university
    • To be organised and highly motivated
    • An analytical mindset with an interest in problem solving
    • Strong technical writing skills and good attention to detail
    • To demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK Culture

    Role/Location: Ware

    Ware is the largest GSK site in the UK with a thriving early talent community, lots of social activities, and a warm and welcoming support network. The Ware Global Supply Chain (GSC) site has modern facilities, uses advanced technologies, and provides amazing development opportunities for future careers.  The site manufactures and supplies oral solid dose tablets (for HIV and oncology) and respiratory devices (for asthma and COPD) to over 140 countries across the world, as well as to patients participating in clinical trials, making a real difference to people’s lives. With a focus on new product introduction, it is a key site within the GSK network and an exciting place to work. Situated in the heart of Ware in Hertfordshire, the site has access to beautiful countryside as well as excellent transport links, being only 40 minutes away from London and Cambridge by train.

    Materials Science is a global technical team within MSAT (Manufacturing Science and Technology) based at the Ware site, supporting business critical projects not only for the Ware site, but other GSK sites globally.

    In this role, you will work in the Materials Science lab and gain competency on a wide variety of characterisation equipment and techniques. This will allow a broader understanding the physical property of materials, such as solid-state form, surface characterisation, bulk flow attributes, particle size and shape, imaging techniques etc.

    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