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Mechanical engineering (multiple roles & locations) industrial placement, uk 2026

Ware
Energy Jobline ZR
Engineering
Posted: 18h ago
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Overview

Job Description 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: 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.

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.

About the role: We offer opportunities to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others. You will take on a real role with live projects or assignments, learn from your team and other parts of the organisation while developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for the future.

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 wellbeing and health resources, including confidential helpline, mindfulness, health screenings and financial wellbeing support.
* Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour online GP access.
* Optional support: identity protection, long-term care, home, auto, and pet insurance.
* Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups for networking and mentoring.
* Access to IPUnite, a community of Early Careers programme participants with development, networking and social connections.
* 2 volunteering days per year.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement:

* Teamworking with multidisciplinary teams
* Communication (written & verbal)
* Time management
* Problem-solving
* Networking
* Data analysis and management
* Technical skills (as 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 GMP critical systems (water, HVAC, steam, compressed air, etc.), industrial utilities (waste treatment, chillers, cooling towers) and interfaces with 3rd party service providers for both the 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 maintains lines used for device assembly and strip insertion. RSC Frontend Engineering manages the Frontend platforms to enable maximum production opportunity through maintenance, breakdowns, obsolescence programs, capital projects and equipment performance. MSAT monitors product and platform performance within the Respiratory value streams and oversees both Assembly and Packing. The Utilities & Facilities department ensures safe operation of utility systems across two Ware sites and campus building services. The OSD Engineering team at Ware focuses on New Product Introduction (NPI) for tablet manufacturing, including Compression, Granulation, Coating and Continuous Direct Compression, and RCA investigations.

Key Placement Learnings:

* Leading projects, such as maintenance, equipment improvements or business processes
* Understanding of business processes like Management of Change, Risk Assessment, Machinery Safety, Process Safety
* Change management and Root Cause Analysis
* Supporting design for equipment upgrades
* Solving problems on assembly equipment to reduce rejects and waste
* Managing complex investigations (customer complaints or deviations)
* Risk Assessments (Machinery Safety and Basis of Safety)
* Leading deviation investigations
* Understanding equipment, plant and processes relevant to the degree area
* Learning GMP principles relevant to pharmaceutical manufacturing
* Co-operating across teams 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. For more information about GSK and our careers please visit our website.

Need help with your application? Please email UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com or call 01582 692870.

Why GSK?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our culture emphasizes being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or any basis prohibited by law.

We offer an agile working culture for all roles. If flexibility is important to you, discuss opportunities with the hiring team. For UK roles you can call 01582 692870 or email UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com. For UK Apprentice and Graduate Programme roles call 0203 862 2277 or email uk.EarlyCareers@gsk.com.

Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies

GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies for vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring candidates.

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