Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Ware RD
Posted Date: Sep 4 2024
Roles Available in Location: Ware R&D
Education required:
To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Human Factors Engineering or similar discipline
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.
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: Sept 2025
Duration: 1 year (approximately)
Salary: A salary of £24,700 plus a bonus.
Application Closing: 9th October 2024
Early applications are encouraged as candidates will be reviewed regularly and the advert may close at any point.
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.
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 Role
Overview of the Department
Within Medicine Development and Supply sits GSK’s Device Engineering team; an in-house device development group charged with the delivery of robust, patient-centric devices that enable the effective delivery of novel pharmaceuticals.
Device Engineering is a multi-skilled team of Engineers and Scientists who work across all stages of the product and process development lifecycle from concept design and selection through to the regulatory submission and commercial supply.
The core remit of Device Engineering is to ensure that the delivery device meets the following requirements:
* is appropriate for the drug product / formulation it is delivering.
* can be used effectively by the target patient/user population.
* meets all regulatory requirements for CT supply, File and Launch.
* is robust, reliable and can be manufactured at commercial scales of supply to the required quality standards.
Key Placement Activities
* Work with device development experts to help develop, model and understand the performance of drug delivery devices in one of the following fields; Human Factors Engineering, Computer Aided Engineering (FEA, CFD, multiphysics modelling), manufacturing process development or device project management.
* Learn how GSK develop robust, patient-centric device to deliver medicines.
* Working with stakeholders at different levels across the business.
These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to
be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:
1. Eligibility Form
2. World of GSK Online Assessment
3. Written Assessment
4. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview
You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website here.
Apply now!
We’re 100% open to all talent – whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients and also because it’s the right thing to do.
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