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Roles Available in Location: Montrose, Barnard Castle, Worthing, Ware
Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an IMechE accredited undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering
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: 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.
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 (4 available)
Role 1 – Mechanical Engineering - Montrose
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
Overview of the Department
GSK Montrose manufactures a range of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API’s) for respiratory, dermatological and HIV conditions. The Production Engineering team provides support to five key manufacturing areas producing multiple API’s. The team consists of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Inspection, HVAC Engineering, Reliability Engineering and Engineering Maintenance. On a daily basis, the team reacts to resolve any plant breakdown situations. Longer term actions focus on improving efficiency, operability and maintenance of plant. The department also supports the utilities and infrastructure strategy and provides solutions to engineering problems throughout the business.
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 2 – Mechanical Engineering - Barnard Castle
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
Overview of the Department
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. We have a variety of roles for mechanical engineers focussing on improving equipment, reliability and production performance. As a placement student you could be based in one of a number of production and site operations teams.
Key Placement Learnings
Performing reliability studies on critical equipment
Predictive maintenance introduction
Maintenance optimisation
Performing DMAIC problem solving and driving improvements
Contributing to safety and quality risk assessments
Reducing failure rates and contributing to cost saving analysis
Role 3 – Mechanical Engineering - Worthing
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
Overview of the Department
There are several Mechanical Engineering opportunities available at the Worthing site.
Within the Manufacturing area, you will be working with highly competent engineers within a highly regulated environment, on equipment which produced numerous API’s.
Within the packaging department, you will experience high speed packaging lines and the importance of a strong reliability programme to maintain successful OEE.
In our production and technical teams, you will support day to operations by conducting root cause analysis to meet our high specifications in quality and EHS.
The utilities and facilities team supports Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) critical systems (water, HVAC, steam, compressed etc.), industrial utilities (waste treatment, chillers, cooling towers) and is the interface with our 3rd party service providers for both our main manufacturing site and our R&D facility.
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 4 – Mechanical Engineering - Ware
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
Overview of the Department
A role at the Ware site could be within several departments:
The Packing Engineering department is responsible for the maintenance of manufacturing lines used for the final packaging step of medical devices.
The Assembly Engineering department is responsible for the maintenance of manufacturing lines used for the device assembly and strip insertion step of Medical devices.
RSC Frontend Engineering manage and improve the Frontend platforms to enable maximum production opportunity through maintenance, breakdowns, obsolescence programs, capital projects and equipment performance.
Manufacturing, Science and Technology (MSAT) department monitor the performance of products and platforms within the Respiratory value streams, our department is both Assembly and Packing. 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 Utilities & Facilities department is responsible for the safe and effective operation of all utility systems across two sites of the Ware Campus as well as the management of building services.
Finally, the Oral Solid Dose (OSD) Engineering team at Ware specialise in New Product Introduction (NPI). The team are responsible for maintaining and continuously improving equipment related to tablet manufacturing, including Compression, Granulation, Coating and Continuous Direct Compression (CDC), and for investigating and completing root cause analysis any issues.
Key Placement Learnings
Leading projects, E.G. maintenance, equipment improvement or business process projects
Developing and understanding of business processes such as Management of Change, Risk Assessment, Machinery Safety, Process Safety etc.
Change management (Change controls) and Root Cause Analysis
Supporting design for equipment upgrades
Problem solving on the assembly equipment to drive down rejects and improve the Cost of waste
Managing and resolving complex investigations (customer complaints or online deviations)
Risk Assessments (Machinery Safety and Basis of Safety)
Leading deviation investigations
Developing a sound understanding of the equipment, plant and processes relevant to their degree area.
Learning key principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), relevant to pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Learning to co-operate across multiple teams and departments to achieve business goals
Apply now!
These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages – you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2026:
1. Eligibility Form
2 GSK Digital Assessment
3. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview
You can find hints and tips on our recruitment process and get guidance from real GSK mentors on our Early Careers Hub here.
We’re 100% open to all talent. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the inclusion of our patients and because it’s the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion at GSK here.
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