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Engineering (Multiple Roles and Locations) Industrial Placement, 2027
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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.
- Written and spoken fluency in English.
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.
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.
About the Role
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 while 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
- 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)
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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. The role contributes to process mapping activities, evaluation, and implementation of new or modified equipment and technologies, and supports deviation investigations to ensure operational excellence and compliance.
Working closely with cross-functional teams, the position helps optimise manufacturing processes, improve throughput, and enhance process control to deliver reliable and efficient production outcomes. The role also provides opportunities for professional engineering development while strengthening collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and risk assessment capabilities.
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. By combining engineering, modelling, automation, analytics, and advanced digital capabilities, the department supports the broader business ambition to accelerate drug development with reduced risk and greater efficiency. Engineers and scientists work collaboratively to solve real-world challenges across multiple modalities, including vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and small molecules, and at all stages of development from laboratory and pilot-scale environments through to commercial manufacturing. PE&A enables medicine development teams to adopt and embed innovative digital solutions that support pipeline delivery, scalable impact, and long-term value creation.
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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. The Medicine Development and Industrialisation team is responsible for defining and delivering technical aspects of the sustainability strategy, namely Ecodesign (how we design and develop our products & processes to make them more sustainable) within legacy, next-generation, and new products within the GSK Global Supply Chain (GSC) product portfolio.
Within this role, you will assist in delivering the technical aspects of the GSK sustainability strategy. You will do this by supporting a team of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) specialists to develop and identify environmental impact reduction plans, working to deliver GSK’s commitment to a nature-positive world, by reducing our environmental impacts across carbon, water, materials, and biodiversity. Furthermore, you will engage in delivering reduction strategies and project initiatives on identified hotspots, from raw materials, our processes (product & packaging), to patient use, which are significant to our ambition.
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
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