Pharmaceutical Science Industrial Placement - 2022 Intake

by GSK

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Deadline: 17th October 2021
Salary: £21,000
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Manufacturing, Medicine, Science
Location: North East, South East
City: Barnard Castle, Ware

Pharmaceutical Science Industrial Placement

Degree Requirements:

Degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmacology, or related Chemistry undergraduate degree. Bio-science related degrees are not accepted. 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.

Our manufacturing sites’ pharmaceutical science placements will give first-hand experience of the development, planning and manufacture of either respiratory or oral solid dose medicines.

You will work directly with and learn from an experienced team of who will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential. Your time with GSK will be spent primarily focussed on:

  • Supporting New Product Introduction (NPI)
  • Responsible for the manufacturing processes and equipment for existing products
  • Continuous Improvement (CI) activities
  • Co-ordination and implementation of planned change
  • Supporting troubleshooting of processes and investigations.

You’ll be contributing to ensuring our pharmaceutical healthcare products are manufactured to stringent quality and safety standards. Opportunities will be available on a daily basis to work closely with other GSK departments which will provide a deep understanding to the way our pharmaceutical supply chain sites work.

Whichever role you go into 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 analysts and scientists; they will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential. Please note, some of the roles available are not lab based and therefore may not be suitable to integrated master’s students.

You’ll need:

  • To be a strong team player
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills
  • Ability to write technical reports
  • Problem solving skills
  • Well-organised and patient focussed
  • Drive for continuous improvement
  • Ideally, good IT skills (SAS and PowerBI routinely used – but prior experience not essential)
  • 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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