Engineering (Multiple Roles and Locations) Industrial Placement, 2027

This job is with GSK, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

To maximise your opportunities at securing an Industrial Placement with us this year, we strongly advise that you apply to no more than 3 adverts. (For clarity, multiple roles within a single advert are considered one application.) We encourage you to concentrate your efforts on the roles that best align with your skills, interests and university experience, as this will strengthen your application and give you the best chance of success.

Roles Available in Location: Ware, Montrose, Worthing, Stevenage, Barnard Castle

Education required: See individual roles for degree requirements. Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.

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.

Pre-application activity: Before applying, you'll need to obtain an application code by completing a short activity in Connectr, our candidate engagement platform. This activity is designed to encourage considered applications. Once completed, you'll receive your unique application code required to proceed with your application. 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 2027

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary: A salary of £26,400 plus a bonus.

Workplace Arrangements: See individual roles.

Application Closing: Roles are expected to close on 06/10/2026, however, candidates will be reviewed regularly, and the advert may close at any point. Please ensure you review and complete the application stages below.

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.

What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary, with an annual bonus based on company performance.
• Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements.
• Access to our cutting-edge wellbeing platform: personalise your experience, help reduce stress, increase focus, build connections and resilience. You will also have access to a confidential helpline 24/7, mindfulness, health screenings and financial wellbeing support.
• Access to Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour access to an online GP.
• Optional Support: Includes identity protection, long-term care insurance, home, auto, and pet insurance.
• Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups, providing opportunities to network, gain mentorship, and develop personally and professionally.
• Access to IPUnite which is a community of Early Careers programme participants offering development, networking and social connections to help you make the best of your programme. You will also be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students.
• 2 volunteering days per year.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Networking
• Data analysis and management
• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

The Roles (8 available)

This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each role carefully before proceeding as you will be asked to provide a preference in the application process.

Role 1 - Engineering - Ware

Degree requirements: any Engineering discipline, including (but not limited to) Mechanical, Chemical, Automation, Electrical, Mechatronic, Robotics or related.

Workplace arrangements: Full time onsite required

Overview of the Department: This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience within a world-class pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. You will work alongside experienced engineers, supporting projects that improve equipment reliability, manufacturing performance, sustainability and digital innovation.

Key Placement Activities:

• Support engineering projects from concept through to implementation and qualification.
• Assist with the installation, commissioning and improvement of manufacturing equipment and utilities.
• Contribute to equipment reliability and maintenance activities, helping to improve safety, performance and operational efficiency.
• Work with automation, control systems and digital technologies to support manufacturing improvements.
• Use data analysis and visualisation tools to identify trends and support data-driven decision making.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects, applying structured problem-solving techniques.

Role 2 - Chemical Engineering - Montrose

Degree requirements: Related science/engineering degree

Workplace arrangements: Full time onsite

Overview of the Department: The Manufacturing Science and Technology Engineering Associate supports engineers in monitoring process performance, analysing manufacturing data, and driving continuous process improvements within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.

Key Placement Learnings:

• Support MSAT engineers with process monitoring, performance analysis, and data-driven decision making to optimise manufacturing performance.
• Assist with process mapping, workflow evaluation, and identification of process improvement opportunities.
• Participate in the assessment, implementation, and validation of new or modified equipment and technologies.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on process efficiency, quality, throughput optimisation, and process control.
• Support deviation investigations, root cause analysis, and risk assessment activities to ensure robust manufacturing processes.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering, quality, and technical teams while maintaining accurate documentation and supporting compliance requirements.

Role 3 - Process Engineering Automation & Modelling - Stevenage

Degree requirements: Any computational degree, e.g., Computer Science, Data Science or a STEM degree with computational interests and experience with programming

Workplace arrangements: Flexible working via performance with choice (office and home working available)

Overview of the Department: Process Engineering & Analytics (PE&A) is a multidisciplinary, digital-first centre of excellence that transforms data, knowledge, and technology into a sustained competitive advantage for delivery across medicines and vaccines.

Key Placement Learnings:

• Develop expertise in building and deploying control and orchestration systems that enable efficient, scalable, and automated process development workflows.
• Create and apply process models and simulation tools to support process understanding, virtual experimentation, and data-driven decision-making across pharmaceutical development.
• Contribute to the democratisation of modelling capabilities by developing accessible digital solutions that enable scientists and engineers to leverage advanced modelling approaches in their day-to-day work.
• Explore and implement AI-driven and agentic workflows to automate complex tasks, accelerate insight generation, and support in-silico experimentation and process optimisation.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and digital specialists to deliver innovative modelling, automation, and digital transformation solutions to real-world development challenges.
• Strengthen technical communication, problem-solving, and project delivery skills through the development and presentation of technical outputs, while adhering to departmental safety, quality, and compliance standards.

Role 4 - Medicine Development and Industrialisation - Sustainability - Ware or Montrose

Degree requirements: Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Data Science or other Science-related discipline

Workplace arrangements: Flexible working via performance with choice (office and home working available)

Overview of the Department: GSK has ambitious environmental sustainability goals to have a net zero impact on climate and a net positive impact on nature by 2030 across our entire end to end value chain.

Key Placement Activities:

• Support the development of a standard approach to LCA, managing data, documents, and outputs.
• Assist with streamlining and automation of product LCA.
• Develop your scientific/technical knowledge of GSK's pharmaceutical products and processes.
• Learn how to drive positive change in sustainability, building relationships across multiple interfaces in a matrix environment.
• Build your teamworking and communication skills by working collaboratively both with co-workers and other functions.
• Enhance your written skills through technical report writing.

Role 5 - Mechanical Engineering - Montrose

Degree requirements: Mechanical Engineering

Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required

Overview of the Department: GSK Montrose manufactures a range of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for respiratory, dermatological and HIV conditions.

Key Placement Learnings:

• Ownership of maintenance life cycle plans (establish, update, review).
• Perform failure investigations.
• Develop technical specification of maintenance contracts.
• Technical input and approvals under the Plant Modification Procedure.
• Make recommendations on technically complex issues through evaluating engineering problems that have a potential business impact.
• Take account of legal, regulatory and financial implications of engineering standards and changes.
• Ensure that asset care activities are performed in a compliant manner.
• Understand appropriate commitments/requirements of the Quality Management System.
• Follow the principles of Good Manufacturing Practice.

Role 6 - Mechanical Engineering - Worthing

Degree requirements: Any Engineering discipline

Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required

Overview of the Department: There are several Mechanical Engineering opportunities available at the Worthing site.

Key Placement Learnings:

• Supporting delivery of the Mechanical, Inspection and Reliability programmes.
• Investigating new engineering technologies to improve plant and maintenance techniques.
• Development and implementation of maintenance best practice.
• Specifying new equipment and components.
• Performing root cause analysis investigations and contributing to safety and quality risk assessments.
• Carrying out continuous improvement activities to ensure good manufacturing practice.
• Gaining a thorough understanding of the equipment, plant and processes used at the site including mechanical design of systems and the ability to problem solve.
• Leading and managing groups of peers or contractors.
• Developing skills in project management and planning projects such as plant modifications, building turnarounds and production line safety improvements.

Role 7 - Facilities Engineering - Barnard Castle

Degree requirements: Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering.

Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required

Overview of the Department: RSC Assembly Engineering manage and improve the Assembly platforms to enable maximum production opportunity.

Key Placement Activities:

• Change management (Change controls).
• Identification and development of business cases for continuous improvement.
• Root cause analysis.
• Supporting design for equipment upgrades.
• Leading meetings.
• Document updates.
• Stakeholder management.

Role 8 - R&D Engineering Services - Stevenage

Degree requirements: Any Engineering Degree

Overview of the Department: R&D Engineering Services delivers facilities management, engineering and capital project services that support Research & Development.

Key Placement Learnings:

• Build an understanding of site equipment, processes and engineering systems, developing strong problem-solving skills.
• Use specialist engineering software to support engineering and maintenance activities.
• Support the delivery and continuous improvement of engineering, inspection and reliability programmes.
• Research, specify and implement new equipment, technologies and best-practice maintenance solutions.
• Perform root cause investigations and contribute to safety, quality and risk assessments.
• Develop project management, planning and leadership skills while working.

Role 9 - Chemical Engineering - Ware

Degree requirements: Chemical Engineering

Overview of the Department: The Chemical Engineering teams at Ware support several initiatives, such as the manufacturing of Oral Solid Dose products for global supply and New Product Introduction.

Key Placement Learnings:

• Lead problem solving and continuous improvement for product processing issues.
• Support platform team and product owners in delivery of Product Lifecycle Management.
• Identify and implement solutions to improve product quality, as well as safety and efficiency gains.
• Support the development and implementation of manufacturing processes for new products.
• Develop skills in technical report writing, stakeholder management, data analysis & visualisation.
• Actively monitor process and product performance to optimise/escalate as required.
• Execute/Support key technical activities e.g. trials and validation activities.

Role 10 - Process Engineering - Stevenage

Degree requirements: Chemical Engineering

Overview of the Department: The Process Engineering placement sits within the Drug Substance Development (DSD) department.

Key Placement Activities:

• Design and perform scale up/down experiments in chemical engineering unit operations to develop understanding against fast paced project timelines.
• Think creatively to optimise engineering solutions and de-risk scale-up processes.
• Ensure that experimental work is communicated effectively at internal R&D meetings and develop your teamworking skills.
• Participate in technology transfer activities as appropriate to GSK manufacturing partners.
• Author or contribute to internal documentation relevant to the role.
• Comply with applicable Data Integrity, Quality, cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) and regulatory requirements in all aspects of work and fully embrace all aspects of safety when working in the laboratory.

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages - you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2027:

• Complete Connectr activity - obtain your personal code.
• Eligibility Form - enter your personal code.
• GSK Digital Assessment.
• Some technical roles may require a short technical assessment.
• Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview.

Note: Your Connectr application code is unique and must not be shared. Using someone else's code, or sharing your own, may result in your application being withdrawn.

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