Facilities Engineering (Multiple Roles & Locations) Placement
To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering.
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.
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 2025
Duration: 1 year (approximately)
Salary: A salary of £24,700 plus a bonus.
Application Closing: 16th 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 Roles (3 available)
This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each role carefully before proceeding as you will be asked to provide a preference later in the application process.
Role 1 – Barnard Castle
Degree requirements – Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering
Overview of the Department
The Barnard Castle site is in the Northeast of England and is sited within the County Durham countryside. Barnard Castle is a key secondary site for GSK with a large number of New Products coming through development at site. We manufacture and supply a huge range of different pharmaceutical products from Sterile Products (Syringes and Vials) to Liquid Inhalations and Dermatologicals.
This role will provide you with an opportunity to work alongside an experienced automation engineering team and digital technology teams to deliver capital projects within a highly regulated environment.
Key Placement activities
* Help the site team with automation capital project delivery for new equipment and digital systems.
* Provide business system support to front line teams for new systems.
* Upgrade existing platforms and help deliver cyber security upgrades.
* Work with digital technology teams to deliver machine integration to cloud data analytics platforms, which support machine learning and AI projects.
* Develop skills with automation systems such as PLCs, HMIs, Distributed Control System (DCS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) based equipment using Siemens S7/PCS7; and OPC systems such as Kepware, Manufacturing Execution System (MES) systems based on Aspentech.
Role 2 – Ware
Degree requirements: Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Overview of the Department
RSC Assembly Engineering manage and improve the Assembly platforms to enable maximum production opportunity. Managing maintenance, breakdowns, obsolescence programs, capital projects and equipment performance to maximise business benefit and strategic objectives.
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 3 – Stevenage
Degree requirements – Mechanical, Electrical, Environmental, Automation, Building Services, Process/ Chemical, Fire Safety
Overview of the Department
RDES provides facilities management, engineering and capital project services tailored to the needs of R&D. We collaborate with our suppliers to ensure our environments are safe, reliable, compliant and sustainable.
The industrial placement role will sit within RDES’ global engineering team which oversees engineering standards & compliance; lifecycle asset management; energy & sustainability; capital planning & processes; and a range of other cross-departmental projects.
You will work with and learn from an experienced team of multi-disciplinary engineers. Throughout the year, they will coach and mentor you to help you reach your full potential.
Key Placement activities
* An Engineering placement in one of our sites will give you hands-on practical application of the theory from university.
* Developing a thorough understanding of the equipment, plant and processes used at the site including design of systems and the ability to problem solve
* Utilise Specialist Engineering Software
* Replacing and innovating existing systems on site
* Supporting delivery of the Engineering, 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
* Carrying out continuous improvement activities to ensure good engineering practice
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
Need help with your application?
Please email us at UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.
How to apply
To apply for this programme and to find out more, please click on the apply button below.
Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.
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