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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.
About the role
The purpose of the quality assurance function in our pharmaceutical manufacturing sites is to ensure the right checks and controls are in place to manufacture and test our life saving products. The successful candidate will work within a team of pharmaceutical quality specialists, leading the development and implementation of activities designed to ensure our manufacturing and packaging operations perform effectively and consistently to meet the high product quality standards expected within the industry. You will gain oversight on operations and have the opportunity to work closely with a wide range of functions on the site. Your role and responsibilities may include:
- Learning about Good Manufacturing Practice and the pharmaceutical industry
- Support regulatory activities, ensuring that we maintain compliance with the legal requirements of our product licenses granted by global regulatory authorities (e.g., MHRA, FDA) and supporting audits of the site from our customers and regulators
- Carrying out activities in the factory on new products, processes, or equipment
- Authoring, reviewing, data checking and approving documentation
- Carrying out routine testing, investigations and identifying improvement activities
- Learn how to use out data platforms such as Power BI
Whichever role you go into you will be applying the skills you already have and developing new skills such as team working, effective communication and time management. You will work with and learn from an experienced team who will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential.
Who are we looking for?
- An interest in data analysis to identify areas for improvement
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate to colleagues at all levels within the organisation
- Attention to detail
- Adept in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Ability to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK Culture
Locations
Please read below about the 3 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: Barnard Castle
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Quality Processes and Standards team at the Barnard Castle site. The Barnard Castle site is located in the Northeast of England within the County Durham countryside. Barnard Castle is a critical secondary site for GSK with a large number of New Products coming through development from R&D. We manufacture and supply a huge range of different pharmaceutical products from Sterile Biological and Small Molecule Products to Liquid Inhalations and Dermatologicals. We have recently opened a new state-of-the-art aseptic digital facility focussed on producing GSKs pipeline of new biopharmaceuticals.
This role will involve rotating around the organisation to give a fantastic oversight of the whole Barnard Castle facility, operations and quality systems. The successful candidate will work in teams that ensure our products and facility are compliant with Regulatory requirements and product licenses, support the management of internal and external audits, report product performance, manage Quality Agreements with other GSK sites/3rd Parties, and understand how we maintain quality data systems.
The daily activity will be highly varied, it will involve working with teams across the site to gather information, understand risk areas and create action plans to improve control and ensure we can continue to supply our medicines compliantly, safely, and efficaciously. The role will be predominantly office based but will include participating in Inspection Readiness tours of all areas on site to ensure we are prepared to host external audits. The site hosts approximately 10 external regulatory audits a year and the Quality Process and Standards team are accountable for ensuring all Quality Systems are in place, in use, and effective to support successful inspections. The successful candidate will get the opportunity to directly support these inspections which is fantastic development anyone wanting to enhance their pharmaceutical business breadth and understand how all areas of a complex site operate and adhere to regulatory and legal requirements.
Role/Location 2: 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.
We have opportunities available for placement students in Ware working in our fast-paced production environment. You will join our operational quality team helping to managing batch progression using electronic systems. The daily activity would include capturing and displaying metrics, organising workload – understanding capacity and balancing demand, resolving issues to enable Qualified Persons to release product to market, batch tracker meetings and working across the Value Stream – with e.g., production & engineering, warehouse, labs, logistics, supplier quality, Regulatory Conformance.
There is also an opportunity to work in the Digital & Improvement team, who lead a variety of improvement projects and deliver digital solutions to add value across the Quality function and the wider Ware site.
Role/Location 3: 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.
Working within either the Quality Control laboratory or the Quality Systems and Validation Compliance team at Worthing provides the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment supporting the manufacture of antibiotic tablets. You will work in a team which is instrumental in ensuring we produce products of the highest quality for our patients as part of a supply chain which supplies patients all over the globe.
Within the QC Laboratory you will be involved in the routine testing and analysis of antibiotic raw materials, intermediates and finished tablets, ensuring that products supplied to patients are of the correct quality and efficacy. You will work as part of a wider team, ensuring throughput of batches for release and shipping to patient, identification and implementation of improvements within the laboratory environment, and supporting investigations and assessment of any testing failures.
Within the Quality Systems and Validation Compliance team you will support validation activities across the site, providing guidance to project teams on industry validation requirements, generating qualification documentation and assessing test results to demonstrate that equipment and processes operate robustly and consistently. You will work closely with individuals in project teams, and from Technical, QC and Engineering to ensure that pharmaceuticals are manufactured to a repeatably high standard and working on new innovations to increase productivity and improve efficiency. This is a varied role, office based, and provides a broad view across the activities performed at the Worthing site.
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
