Engineering (Multiple Locations) Industrial Placement, UK 2024 Brentford, England
Job description
Roles Available in Locations: GSK House (London) and Worthing
Worthing is a Penicillin Manufacturing site in the UK - please consider this if you are applying to a role here and are allergic to penicillin
If your interest lies in working with us at GSK house, remember we are moving headquarters the first half of 2024 to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”).
Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate degree in a Mechanical, Chemical, Automation, Manufacturing, Electrical and Process related engineering degrees.
Other requirements: You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) university for the duration of your placement.
If you have already graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.
Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English
Expected Start date: July 2024
Duration: 1 year (approximately)
Salary: A salary of £23,400 plus a bonus (GSK House, London), a salary of £21,400 plus a bonus (Worthing)
Application Closing: Wednesday 11th October 2023 (this is the date we anticipate the job will be removed from the website and no longer taking new applications).
Please note these dates are subject to change as we may close this vacancy when we have enough applications. We recommend that you apply and complete all stages of your application as soon as you can, so we can consider your application.
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.
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)
Role/Location 2: Worthing
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
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Let’s do this!
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Completion of your Full Application: Sunday 15th October 2023 (this is the anticipated date you will need to complete stages 1 to 3 below).
Proposed Assessment / Interview Dates: From November 2023
We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so we recommend that you apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.
This opportunity has the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:
Eligibility Form
World of GSK Online Assessment
Written Assessment
Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview
You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website here
You can learn more about GSK and our careers here.
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