Internship - Smart Manufacturing, Singapore (July to December 2025)

Help us get ahead of disease together with our Operational Excellence & Smart Manufacturing Team / Smart Manufacturing Internship, 2025:

Education required: Undergraduate studying a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college/university, preferably in Chemical Engineering or other relevant engineering courses

Other requirements: Must be enrolled at a SG university for the duration of your internship and doing a full-time credit-bearing internship

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English

Internship period: July to December 2025

Application deadline: 31 January 2025

As applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, we recommend applying as soon as possible for your application to be considered. This vacancy will be closed once we have enough applications for consideration.

Are you looking to gain valuable world work experience and help to positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for a GSK Internship today!

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, serious work on live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

What will you do?

Automation and digital solutions are deployed by first intent to optimize, transform or reinvent the ways of working, and allow the pharmaceutical manufacturing site to deliver new modalities and medicines to patients across the world in a reliable, effective, and sustainable manner. This will include developing a culture of right-first time and zero defects across the value chain, optimizing production, factory data integration, proactive scheduling, and data-centric operations. Operational excellence principles are applied to a process prior to introduction of digitalization and automation to ensure optimal delivery of business value.

In this internship, you will be supporting the engineers, chemists and data scientists working on deploying smart manufacturing projects such advanced manufacturing data intelligence and execution systems on site. You will help with the collection, extraction, analysis, validation and visualization of business and process data (e.g. distributed control system recipe), and establish requirements for process workflow improvements. You will also apply operation excellence thinking and support business change processes prior to deployment of new technologies and platforms. You will also utilize low code programming to develop connected worker applications, data visualization and robotic process automation or generative AI. You will be using solutions such as MS Power Platform, BI or other dashboarding tools to develop new dashboards and visualization of business and process data.

Project deliverables

1) Collection, extraction, analysis, validation and visualization of business and process data, including sustainability, engineering, manufacturing and material flow.

2) Support business change processes prior to deployment of new technologies and platforms

3) Create and deploy new performance dashboards and visualization

Management Skills:

You will also be given a chance to lead / assist the engineers, chemists, data scientists or project managers in the following:

1) Project management of a use case or digital application project

2) Prepare communication materials such as slides, videos for change management

3) Organize communication sessions with the site users

4) Join and lead / participate in company social events e.g. Environmental Sustainability or Social Welfare related

What will you learn?

• Learn about Pharmaceutical Primary Manufacturing and the use of automation, digitalization and data analytics to deliver business value

• Acquire knowledge on the cross-functional interconnectivity across operational, engineering, MSAT and quality functions to deliver the new technology solutions

• Immersed in business analysis, site activities and change management

• Apply your knowledge of analytics, critical thinking and develop operational excellence thinking and soft skills in engaging different stakeholders from shopfloor to senior management to deliver a project

What are we looking for?

• Strong written and oral communications skills

• Excellent English proficiency

• A keen interest in production

• Meticulous, organized, and dedicated

• Understanding and experience in using Python and SQL

• Knowledge of other languages such as Visual Basic, Javascript will be beneficial

What do we offer you?

• Understand and experience the GSK Culture

• Work with a diversified team of professionals

• Implement technical knowledge and skills that you have acquired at school

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

• Transport to and from site to MRT stations in centralised 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/

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Need help with your application?

Please email us at [email protected] 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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