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Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
About the role
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.
Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for a PAT Engineer Industrial Placement role at GSK today!
Our approach to R&D focuses on science related to the prevention and treatment of disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to impact health at scale. Our pipeline currently comprises of more than 60 vaccines and medicines across four core therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology / respiratory and HIV. Find out more: Our approach to R&D.
As the Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) Engineer you will be involved with various unit operations such as continuous direct compression and high shear wet granulation to implement process analytical technologies into the process to optimise quality via in process controls. You will also be involved in data analysis via chemometric techniques, data modelling and will be expected to deliver results to key stakeholders.
You should have a desire to modernise automation of data from collection to storage to help optimise manufacturing processes for oral solid dose products. Also, you will be working as part of a OnePharma team, flexing their resource accordingly between Research & Development and Manufacturing sites.
Key responsibilities
- Collect data using a variety of process analytical technologies to support process development and design such as the use of NIR for in process control
- Define requirements for data connectivity across multiple automation and data platforms to enable smart manufacturing / Industry 4.0
- Analyse data from manufacturing processes using data analytics and machine learning techniques to provide insights for process monitoring, control, and simulation
- Liaise, where necessary, with key stakeholders such as process engineers, data modellers, analytical scientists, and quality assurance
- To deliver the above in a precise and timely manner, adhering to safety and quality expectations
What do we offer you?
- A salary of £21,000 plus a bonus
- Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs and pension plan membership
- On-the-job experience and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring, and training programs
- A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
- You will join a GSK Industrial Placement community of over 250 students across the UK and business areas
- Access to LinkedIn groups to enable the new Industrial Placement community to network and connect before start date
- For R&D placements you will also be enrolled in several GSK internal courses as part of company policy such as data integrity, use of internal electronic lab book, laboratory safety rules.
- Within R&D you will have the opportunity to attend seminars by GSK scientists, which run throughout the year and comprise of a wide range of areas within drug discovery.
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