Organic Chemistry Industrial Placement Montrose 2024

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 an organic chemist will give you valuable hands-on experience for working as part of a multidisciplinary team of synthetic organic chemists, material scientists and analytical scientists. In this role you will be undertaking synthetic organic chemistry experiments to support process improvements, route changes, mimic plant conditions for new chemical entities, impurity synthesis and impurity process mapping, etc. Key roles and responsibilities will include:

• Developing process improvements to existing manufacturing processes to maximise yields, reduce cycle times, processing costs and to minimise waste.
• Improving process understanding and robustness
• Synthesising novel entities
• Supporting and troubleshooting processing issues encountered during the manufacture of commercial products.

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 organic chemists; they will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential.

Who are we looking for?

• A strong interest in organic chemistry
• To be a team player
• Be well organised
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK Culture.

Role/Location: Montrose

Our 45-acre primary manufacturing site at Montrose is within easy reach of Dundee and Aberdeen. It is our largest UK chemical manufacturing facility and celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2022. The site has state-of-the-art manufacturing and testing facilities, with a range of operations from reaction, distillation, crystallisation and filtration/drying. The site produces a wide range of active ingredients across more than 30 stages of chemistry for some of our most important medicines including respiratory, HIV and dermatological products. Every day, an estimated 30 million people take medication that includes an ingredient from Montrose.

During your placement you will gain valuable experience as an organic chemist including:

• The use of laboratory equipment including automated lab equipment
• Learning key laboratory procedures including reaction set up, distillations, crystallisations, drying, and column chromatography purification techniques.
• The use of search engines including SciFinder to conduct literature searches to aid process development.
• Analysing test results, data and writing technical reports
• You will also gain practical experience in spectroscopic characterisation (NMR/ FTIR and MS), reaction monitoring (open access HPLC), Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) and the regulatory aspects inherent in an active pharmaceutical environment.

This role will particularly suit if you want to gain experience working in a manufacturing site laboratory and have a passion for organic chemistry.

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