Choose Wisely, Apply Confidently
To maximise your opportunities at securing an Industrial Placement with us this year, we strongly advise that you apply to no more than 3 adverts. (For clarity, multiple roles within a single advert are considered one application.)
We encourage you to concentrate your efforts on the roles that best align with your skills, interests and university experience, as this will strengthen your application and give you the best chance of success.
Roles Available in Location: Worthing, Ware, Barnard Castle
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 2026
Duration: 1 year (approximately)
Salary: A salary of £25,400 plus a bonus.
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
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?
1. A competitive salary, with an annual bonus based on company performance.
2. Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements.
3. 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.
4. Access to Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour access to an online GP.
5. Optional Support: Includes identity protection, long-term care insurance, home, auto, and pet insurance
6. Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups, providing opportunities to network, gain mentorship, and develop personally and professionally.
7. 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.
8. 2 volunteering days per year
Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:
9. Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
10. Communication (written & verbal)
11. Time management
12. Problem-solving
13. Networking
14. Data analysis and management
15. Technical skills (detailed within each role description)
The Roles (4 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 – Manufacturing Science and Technology - Ware
Degree Requirements: Open to any STEM degree
Workplace Arrangements: Full time onsite required
Overview of the Department
QA Validation provides quality oversight to validation and qualification activities by leading validation working parties and offering SME support within GSC Ware. Projects range from equipment, utilities, facilities, computerised systems, to cleaning and manufacturing processes. The role also involves authoring, reviewing, and approving documents such as validation plans, protocols and reports. Additionally, the team manages validation aspects of change controls including impact assessment, approval of change control requests and review of change actions. Furthermore, the team supports inspection readiness and presents and justifies validation scope and documents with internal and external auditors.
Key Placement Learnings
• Work with the business to promote the value of validation activity in all stages of projects
• Promote effective working relationships and ensure they are maintained through the validation working party
• Input into validation lifecycle activities for manufacturing processes
• Involvement in presenting & justifying validation scope and documents to internal audits
Role 2 – Quality Systems and Validation Compliance - Worthing
Degree Requirements: Undergraduate Degree in Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacology, Biomedical, Life Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, Biochemistry or related
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
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 Learnings
16. Work with other departments (Technical, Engineering, Operations) to support equipment qualification activities and projects.
17. Write, review and approve validation lifecycle documentation and ensure they comply with relevant Good Manufacturing Practice and industry requirements.
18. Facilitate the team tiered accountability meeting and identify improvements through the use of data analytics.
19. Build knowledge of industry expectations for equipment and process validation.
Role 3 – Quality Processes - Ware
Degree Requirements: Undergraduate Degree in Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacology, Biomedical, Life Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, Biochemistry or related
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
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 Learnings
20. Support activities related to vendor and customer complaints management
21. Complete a continuous improvement cycle for an identified need in the process team
22. Learn and apply learning to aspects of Quality Processes Management
23. Support Process Performance Management activity in the area
24. Support internal and external audits as applicable
Role 4 - Incoming Supply Chain Compliance Specialist – Barnard Castle
Degree requirements: Logistics and supply chain management, Chemistry with Industry, Business with Compliance, Supply Chain Leadership, Third Party Logistics, Compliance Management
Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required
Overview of the Department
This role will be a role within the analytical function but will not be laboratory based; this role is a desk-based role that will be exposed to supplier compliance/ incoming laboratory compliance/ new project compliance and third-party management.
Key Placement Learnings
25. Management of documentation, including confidential & restricted.
26. Building relationships with global functions and resolving priority and complex issues.
27. Creation/ review/ archive / retention (all aspects) of documentation.
28. Use of electronic systems to manage documents and processes linked to third parties.
29. Liaising with numerous functions to achieve an end goal, usually within a limited timeframe.
30. Change management of processes using GSK ways of working.
31. Limited exposure to analytical laboratories and the documentational/ third party processes involved.
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 .
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 .
Need help with your application? Please email us at or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.
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