Chemical Engineering Industrial Placement - 2022 Intake

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Chemical Engineering Industrial Placement

Degree Requirements:

Studying an accredited undergraduate degree in an IChemE. 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 will be expected to provide evidence from your university to show you will be an undergraduate student for the duration of the placement year.

A Chemical Engineering placement in one of our GSK manufacturing sites will give you hands on practical application of the theory from university. The GSK Pharmaceutical Supply Chain produces active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) that are transformed into dosage forms for our patients. This encompasses a huge variety of chemical engineering unit operations: chemistry is performed at scale (10-330 kg, depending on the product); fermentation; solids processing for tablets, inhalers, creams and ointments (batch sizes up to tonnes).

This presents chemical engineering challenges: safely handling large quantities of hazardous liquids and powders; heating/cooling; mixing; correct solid microstructure. Product quality is also vital: ensuring the correct quantities of materials are charged to the reactor at the correct time and ensuring equipment avoids any contamination. Many processes are automated so chemical engineers are heavily involved with the plant control software.

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

• Changes to plant: from inception of the improvement, design and functional testing to commissioning
• Seeing first-hand how equipment and its associated control system operates
• Safety and/or quality risk assessments
• Project management and planning
• Leading root cause analysis investigations.
• A range of manufacturing processes depending on the site. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient production involves reactions, separations, distillation, crystallisation and drying. Solid dosage form production has powder blending, milling, tablet compression, coating of tablets. Liquid, cream and ointment dosage forms have mixing, emulsification and 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.

You’ll need:

• A passion for Chemical engineering in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment
• Attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills
• Drive to get things done
• To be a team player
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Excel / Data skills
• Ability to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK Values and Expectations

About GSK

GSK are a science-led global healthcare company that researches and develops innovative Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines products. Our challenging and inspiring mission is to enable people to do more, feel better and live longer by developing innovative products and improving access to healthcare for patients around the world.

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