Join the GSK Engineering Graduate Programme, Singapore, 2025: Help us get ahead of disease together

The GSK Graduate Programme offers you the opportunity to join the Global Supply Chain and play a crucial role in delivering life-saving medicines and vaccines to people across 90% of the world!

Our comprehensive graduate programme is designed to nurture your professional and personal development, providing a competitive starting salary along with your own dedicated development budget.

Can you help us to develop, produce, and supply medicines to the people who need them most?

Education required: BSc or MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Biologics & Process Technology, Chemical & Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Science, or related IChem E accredited degrees. Graduation by July 2025 to start from July/August 2025.

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English

Expected Start date: July/August 2025

Application deadline: 4 October 2024
We recommend you apply as soon as possible. This vacancy will close when we have received enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.

Assessment Centre Date: November 2024

Are you a talented and driven student or graduate eager to make an impact on billions of lives? Apply for the Engineering Graduate Programme at GSK today!

At GSK, we are embarking on an exciting journey to establish a world-class global supply chain that will effectively deliver GSK’s new product portfolio and pipeline. Within the Global Supply Chain business (GSC), we are dedicated to manufacturing and supplying medicines and vaccines worldwide. Our teams oversee every stage of production, from creating high-quality products at our manufacturing sites to developing effective supply forecasting and managing regulatory inspections – all driven by digital, data, and analytics.
We are seeking highly motivated graduates who are eager to grow into future engineering, operational, and technical roles within GSC. These positions involve working at our manufacturing sites to ensure the implementation of the latest, safe, efficient, and reliable processes and equipment. This programme presents an opportunity for you to cultivate your skills in an industry that is undergoing radical changes in the way it develops and manufactures products.

Ahead together with tailored training and career development
Throughout your roles in our graduate programme, you can expect the following benefits:

• Challenging and supportive environment for your professional and personal growth
• Opportunities to network and enhance visibility with senior leaders who will mentor, coach, and support you with career planning
• Development of technical skills through valuable on-the-job experience
• Work in roles that are individually tailored according to your discipline, with the aim of meeting your aspirations, strengths and ambitions (along with the needs of the business)
• Access to a generous personal development budget to accelerate learning and professional growth
• Kaizens – short-term breadth projects that offer potential international exposure

What will you do?
As an Engineering graduate, you can expect to develop your knowledge and experience in:

• Various types of bulk manufacturing processes (Upstream and Downstream), as well as sterile manufacturing, including tablet manufacturing, sterile manufacturing and primary manufacturing within pharmaceuticals.
• A range of unit operations including Distillation, Crystallisation, Granulation, Compression, Fermentation, Purification (Chromatography operations, Ultra-filtration), Microfluidization, Complexation and Adsorption.
• Identifying opportunities for safety, environmental improvements, technological advancements and continuous process improvements.
• Troubleshooting and apply DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve & Control) principles to solve process/operational issues in a manufacturing facility.
• New Product Introduction and Technology transfer
• Process automation and new technologies involving data analytics and continuous manufacturing
• Process Safety including hazard identification and risk assessments
• Deliver business critical projects including yield and productivity improvement initiatives

What are we looking for?

• A relevant engineering degree and strong technical skills
• Clear enthusiasm and motivation for engineering in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry and improving manufacturing process and technologies
• A mindset focused on continuous improvement and growth, along with strong interpersonal skills and a positive approach
• The ability to listen, learn, and a genuine desire to make a meaningful impact on people’s lives through high-quality work
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, coupled with a collaborative approach to teamwork
• Self-motivation, proactiveness, and a strong eagerness for development and learning
• Analytical, organized, and process-driven, with exceptional attention to detail
• High adaptability and flexibility, with the ability to perform effectively under pressure and embrace change

What do we offer you?

• A tailored development plan aligned to your career aspirations and business needs, supported by a generous training budget
• On-the-job experience
• Formal and informal technical and soft skills training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching and mentoring by senior leaders, your manager, your peers, and a mix of virtual & in person courses.
• A competitive salary
• An annual bonus based on company performance
• Access to healthcare and well-being programmes, time off and childcare support
• Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements
• Paid volunteering days, called “Together Days”
• Company transport to and from convenient locations across Singapore

Let’s do this!
You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website
Learn more about the application process

You can learn more about GSK and our careers here: https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/careers/

Our Graduate Programmes are designed to accelerate the development of graduates who don’t have significant previous professional work experience in the area to which they are applying. Of course, many graduates who join the program have worked while studying or after graduation. If you’ve already developed substantial experience working in a professional role in your sector, while you would be able to apply for this program, you may also want to look at direct entry roles in our businesses, as these may be the best way to build on your existing skills and expertise and develop a career at GSK.

Apply now!
We’re 100% open to all talent – whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality 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, because it’s the right thing to do.

You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK gsk.to/DEI

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

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Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s 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 – 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.

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