Site Name: UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Sep 11 2025

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.

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.

ROLE 1 - FACILITIES ENGINEERING - BARNARD CASTLE

Degree requirements: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering
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 recently opened a new state of the art aseptic digital facility producing biopharmaceuticals.
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 Learnings

• 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; as well as OPC communication systems and manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

ROLE 2 - FACILITIES ENGINEERING – STEVENAGE

Degree requirements: Building Services Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering.
Overview of the Department
R&D Engineering Services provides facilities management, engineering and capital project services tailored to the needs of Research & Development. We collaborate with our suppliers to ensure our environments are safe, reliable, compliant and sustainable. As a global function we support over 13,000 people across 14 sites in 6 countries, covering 4.7 million sq ft with a budget in excess of £400m per annum.
The industrial placement role will sit within R&D Engineering Services Global and Europe engineering teams 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. On every project and
from every person you encounter, there is something to learn and build new or pre-existing talents
You will collaborate closely with everyone in the team on a number of projects taking place on site,
ranging from installation projects, calibration, cyber security and environmental projects to meet GSK’s 2030 Environmental and Sustainability Targets.
Key Placement Learnings
An Engineering placement in one of our sites will give you hands-on practical application of the

theory from university. Our sites are key cutting-edge Research & Development facilities within GSK.

• 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 and processes 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
• Contributing to safety and quality risk assessments
• Carrying out continuous improvement activities to ensure good engineering practice
• Developing skills for leading and managing groups of peers or contractors to achieve the above
• Developing skills in project management and planning