Chemical Engineering Industrial Placement

by GSK

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Deadline: 14th October 2020
Salary: Competitive
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Engineering
Location: East of England, London, Scotland, South East
City: Maidenhead, Montrose, Ware, Worthing, Weybridge

Chemical Engineering Industrial Placement

A Chemical Engineering placement in one of our GSK manufacturing sites will give you hands on practical application of the theory from university.

Our sites produce a huge range of different products, from tablets and inhalers to toothpaste and mouthwash.

During your 12 months with us, you’ll gain experience in areas such as:

  • Process improvement activities to ensure good manufacturing practice
  • Safety and/or quality risk assessments
  • Plant commissioning/design (change management and validation)
  • Project management and planning
  • Leading root cause analysis investigations.
  • A range of manufacturing processes, such as: dry blending, milling, enzyme extraction, solids separation, evaporation, powder mixing and transfer, granulation, coring, tablet compression, film coating of tablets, roller compaction, milling, tablet or bottle filling.

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 of multi-disciplined engineers. They will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential.

Maidenhead

Working within the Engineering or Technical teams identifying, planning and implementing compliance, new product introduction and productivity improvement projects to support the site’s Innovation, Performance and Trust strategies.

Worthing

Working within the Bioprocessing Department: The role involves designing chemical reactions/downstream purification processes for scaling up our R&D new drugs & enzyme catalysts, from bench scale to pilot plant and manufacturing scales globally and externally.

Working within the Sterile Manufacturing Business Improvement Department: Designing and carrying out capital and non-capital projects, to improve equipment and processes and ensure robust medicine supply to patients. You will learn about Sterile Bulk API manufacture and secondary sterile manufacture and work closely with the Process Support, Operations, Engineering, and Aseptic Assurance departments to develop effective solutions based on data.

Weybridge

Working in R&D New Product Development you will have the opportunity to contribute to a variety of processes, dose formats and brands within Consumer Healthcare. You will get exposure to a matrix environment and will lead your own project(s) during your 12 months. Typical projects will look at process optimisation, scale-up challenges, value engineering, new technology design and validation.

Montrose

Working in the Technical Development Department you will have the opportunity to get involved in supporting activities related to the day to day manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients; Capital Projects; Automation; Health, Safety and Environment and Quality. You will get support to develop your skills and knowledge from your line manager as well as from experienced colleagues.

Ware

The Ware site is the largest site in the GSK network with a thriving early talent community. We manufacture and supply a huge range of different pharmaceutical products from our Respiratory and Oral Solid Dose (tablet) Supply Chains. You will be working within our technical and operations teams putting your university knowledge into practical applications. This may include identifying and working on process improvement work and new product or process projects as well as investigating deviations, writing technical reports and assisting in analysing & visualising data from our manufacturing processes.

What we are looking for: We’re looking for well-organised, patient-focused students who are passionate about problem solving and the products we make.

About GSK

One of the world’s leading healthcare companies, GSK discovers, develops, manufactures and distributes life-saving vaccines, prescription medicines and consumer health products such as Maxinutrition, Sensodyne, Aquafresh and Panadol.

The size and scope of our organisation allows our people to answer some of the biggest questions facing everyone on the planet – questions about future healthcare needs and questions about building a responsive, innovative, global business to meet them – as well as questions about their own personal and professional growth.

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