Job Description

Education required: Bachelor in Chemical Engineering /Industrial & System Engineering.

Other requirements: Must be enrolled at a University for the duration of your Internship

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English

Expected Start Date: May/June 2024

Application deadline: 31 Jan 2024

We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered

Looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the health of billions of people?

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career \xe2\x80\x93 to take on a real role with genuine impact! You\xe2\x80\x99ll take on challenging, serious work on live projects or assignments. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

What will you do?

Where does the role fit?

Based at the Jurong site in Pioneer Sector 1, you will actively participate and be involved in driving improvements to process flows across the GSK manufacturing supply chain, specifically for plant change over processes at the Jurong and Quality Road manufacturing sites in Singapore.

At the end of the internship, you would expect to have experienced and accomplished the following:

1) Understanding of various plant activities in a live manufacturing environment for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, with focus on plant change over processes.

2) Actively led or participated in Kaizen sessions to develop strategies and ideas for plant change over process flow optimisation, through the use of:

Analysis of plant change over performance data through data collection and mining.

Application of lean principles and tools such as 5S, standard work, and Continuous Improvement @ Gemba to surface out wastes in the workflow.

Advocating continuous improvement mindset and culture through engagement with various departments in the Value Streams for identification of improvement opportunities.

3) Contributed to the site\xe2\x80\x99s overall continuous improvement culture by providing support to GPS Experts and personnel from other functions through the use of the GPS Framework.

4) Assisted in the coordination and facilitation of:

Site-wide GPS workshops,

Improvements to the KPI dashboards on site,

Site/department-wide events which provide valuable experience that comes with the immersion of oneself in the GSK culture,

Many other ad-hoc events that serve as platforms for ample opportunities to build a network within the GSK community.

What are we looking for?

Educational background \xe2\x80\x93 Undergraduate studying Bachelor in Chemical Engineering /Industrial & System Engineering who is interested in learning more about a manufacturing supply chain process flow improvement

Hungry to learn

Flexible; able to work both independently and as a team

Strong ability to analyze and present data

Sociable, with excellent communication and organisational skills.

Knowledge of PowerBI, advanced analytics in Excel is a bonus

What do we offer you?

Understand and Experience the unique and well known GSK Culture

Understand the critical factors for career development

Learn best practice from GSK Workplace Team and its impact to support the core business of GSK

Work with a diversified team of professionals

Apply and develop soft skills such as interpersonal, communications and negotiation skills.

Implement knowledge and skills that you have acquired at school

Let\xe2\x80\x99s do this!

You\xe2\x80\x99ll find hints, tips, and guidance on our recruitment process on our website \xe2\x80\x93 Learn more about the application process | GSK

You can hear more from our past interns in the video below:

We recommend you apply as soon as possible because we accept ongoing applications and offer positions on a first come, first served basis.

Apply now!

Need help with your application? Please email us at sg.campus@gsk.com and let us know how we can help you.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030. \xe2\x80\x8b

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it\xe2\x80\x99s 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 \xe2\x80\x93 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.\xe2\x80\x8b

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