Overview

Expected Start date: July 2025
Duration: 1 year (approximately)
Salary: A salary of £24,700 plus a bonus

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.

To apply for this placement, you must be:

  • Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Economics, Sustainability, Public Health, Engineering, Manufacturing, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Geography, Environmental Sciences, Natural Sciences  or related.
  • 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.

Role 1 – Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Officer

Key Placement Activities:

  • Undertake Risk Assessments and develop the site Machinery Safety improvement program.
  • Own elements of the Contractor safety improvement program.
  • Improve EHS training methods to include new technologies/methods by keeping up to date on health, safety, and environmental laws and regulations.
  • Use EHS data analysis to improve EHS performance by understanding the impact of the workplace on the environment and how to minimize negative effects.
  • Analyse procedures and standards to both simplify and improve our approach and implement preventative measures, as well as deliver training programmes to staff.
  • Gain skills in emergency response planning by preparing for and responding to workplace emergencies.
  • Join and be an active member of one of the Employee Resource groups.

Role 2 – Environment, Health & Safety Associate

Key Placement Activities:

  • Conducting Risk Assessments to identify potential hazards and implementing strategies to mitigate these risks.
  • Developing and implementing safety programs
  • Supporting EHS Audits
  • Data analysis and reporting – analysing EHS performance data to identify trends, strengths, and areas for improvement.
  • Enhancing EHS technology usage
  • Environmental Sustainability initiatives
  • Managing and leading EHS projects from inception to completion, including planning, execution, and evaluation.

Role 3 – Central Sustainability

Key Placement Activities:

  • Apply a sustainability, business, and partnerships mindset to practical applications such as reviewing internal data and external trends.
  • Support the evaluation of external collaboration proposals and liaise with internal stakeholders for knowledge sharing via remote and in-person meetings.
  • Support and communicate research on sustainability topics (water, waste, land, climate) to inform decisions on their integration into the sustainability programme.
  • Support the assessment and monitoring of sustainability programmes, partnerships, and external reporting across the Central Sustainability Team.
  • Provide insights based internal and external data using platforms including Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI.
  • Ability to distil key messages and information in a succinct way for sharing with stakeholders within and beyond the sustainability team.
  • Handle administrative tasks related to collaboration project management and develop a business mindset.

Apply now!

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

Early applications are encouraged as candidates will be reviewed regularly and the advert may close at any point.

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 UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.