Mechanical Engineering (Multiple Roles & Locations) Industrial Placement, UK 2025

The Production Engineering team at Montrose site encompasses mechanical engineering, inspection, HVAC, reliability engineering and the maintenance team. The department supports Utilities and infrastructure strategy and provides solutions to engineering problems throughout the business. Montrose is located between Aberdeen and Dundee in Scotland.

Key Placement Activities

• 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 - Barnard Castle

Overview of the Department

The Barnard Castle site is located 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. 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 Activities

• 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, 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.


Role 4 - Ware

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 Ellipta Inhalers.

RSC Frontend Engineering manage and improve the Ellipta Frontend platforms to enable maximum production opportunity through maintenance, breakdowns, obsolescence programs, capital projects and equipment performance.

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 Activities

• 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


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.

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, 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 Management and Analysis


• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)


Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students. You will join IPUnite, GSK's community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class
• (US only).


We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.