Quality Assurance & Quality Control (Multiple Roles & Locations) Industrial Placement, UK 2025

Full Time Health Care

Job Description

Site Name: UK - West Sussex - Worthing, UK - Hertfordshire - Ware
Posted Date: Sep 4 2024

Roles Available in Location: Worthing, Ware

Education required:

To apply for this placement, you must be:

Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacology, Biomedical, Life Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, Biochemistry or related

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)


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.

The Roles (2 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 - Quality Systems and Validation Compliance

Roles available - Worthing

Overview of the Department

The Quality Systems and Validation Compliance department is responsible for ensuring compliance to company processes and industry requirements and managing the lifecycle of our drug product from initial qualification through to ongoing commercial marketing. As an established product, this requires ongoing licence maintenance with supplied markets, and qualification of new equipment and/or processes to improve manufacturing efficiencies.

Key Placement Activities
Work with other departments (Technical, Engineering, Operations) to support equipment qualification activities and projects.
  • Write, review and approve validation lifecycle documentation and ensure they comply with relevant Good Manufacturing Practice and industry requirements.
  • Facilitate the team tiered accountability meeting and identify improvements through the use of data analytics.
  • Build knowledge of industry expectations for equipment and process validation.


Role 2 - Quality Processes

Roles available - Ware

Overview of the Department

The Quality Processes Department is a core pillar of the Central Quality Department in GSC Ware. Quality Systems and Processes are led for the whole site including Complaints Management, Deviation, Corrective and Preventive Actions, Change Control and Management of documentation systems amongst other Quality Management System processes

Key Placement Activities
  • Support activities related to vendor and customer complaints management
  • Complete a continuous improvement cycle for an identified need in the process team
  • Learn and apply learning to aspects of Quality Processes Management
  • Support Process Performance Management activity in the area
  • Support internal and external audits as applicable


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.

You can learn more about GSK and our careers here.

Apply now!

We're 100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients and also because it's the right thing to do.

You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK here.

Need help with your application?

Please email us at [email protected] or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.

You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK here.

Need help with your application?

Please email us at [email protected] or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.

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