Pharmaceutical Science

**Roles Available in Location**: Barnard Castle, Ware, Worthing

**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 2026

**Duration**: 1 year (approximately)

**Salary**: A salary of £25,400 plus a bonus.

**Workplace Arrangements**:Please read the workplace arrangements for each role carefully before applying.

**Application Closing**:
**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 (3 available)**

**This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each description carefully before applying.**

**Role 1 - Barnard Castle**

Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required

Overview of the Department

Key Placement Learnings
- Supporting New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Supporting manufacturing processes and equipment for existing products
- Continuous Improvement (CI) project delivery
- Co-ordination and implementation of planned change
- Supporting troubleshooting of processes and manufacturing investigations.
- Developing skills in continuous improvement and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)

**Role 2 - Ware**

Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required

Overview of the Department

The Manufacturing, Science and Technology (MSAT) team monitor the performance of products and equipment platforms within the three production streams. The department oversees all aspects of product lifecycle management, from introduction and scale up of newly developed R&D assets to ensuring robust and repeatable manufacture of commercialised pharmaceutical products.

The MSAT department is responsible for managing and supporting all technical aspects of commercial drug product manufacture at the Ware GSK site. This includes product life cycle management, troubleshooting during manufacturing, planned changes, process improvements, transfer of drug products to new facilities and to other GSK/third party sites, support of regulatory filing, and site audit activities.

Key Placement Learnings
- Trouble shooting during manufacturing and testing of commercial OSD, Respiratory and Micronising drug products
- Involvement in drug product transfers and validation projects within the production facilities
- Managing cleaning validation and annual cleaning monitoring activities
- Leading deviation investigations and manufacturing investigations for atypical/out of specification laboratory results
- Involvement in manufacturing trials for newly developed products
- Supporting the MSAT team in delivering key milestones for new product development
- Leading process improvement projects relating to transfer of products from R&D to manufacturing sites
- Writing technical protocols, reports, and drug product impact assessments
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