Quality Assurance & Quality Control (Multiple Locations) Industrial Placement, UK 2024 Barnard Castle, England
Job description
Roles Available in Locations: Barnard Castle, Ware 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
Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy, Pharmacology or any accredited engineering degree course
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 £21,400 plus a bonus
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.
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 industrySupport 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 improvementStrong 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
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
Role/Location 2: Ware
Role/Location 3: Worthing
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
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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
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