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    4. Organic Chemistry Industrial Placement 2023
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    Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

    GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

    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.

    Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for an Organic Chemistry Industrial Placement at GSK today!

    The role

    Your role as an Organic Chemist will give you valuable hands-on experience for working as part of a multidisciplinary team of synthetic organic chemists, material scientists and analytical scientists. In this role you will be undertaking synthetic organic chemistry experiments to support process improvements, route changes, mimic plant conditions for new chemical entities, impurity synthesis and impurity process mapping, etc.

    Key roles and responsibilities will include:

    • Developing process improvements to existing manufacturing processes to maximise yields, reduce cycle times, processing costs and to minimise waste.
    • Improving process understanding and robustness
    • Synthesising novel entities
    • Supporting and troubleshooting processing issues encountered during the manufacture of commercial products.

    You will be applying the skills you already have and developing new skills such as: team working, problem solving and building relationships. You will work with and learn from an experienced team of organic chemists; they will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential.

    Montrose

    Our 45-acre primary manufacturing site at Montrose is located between the North Sea and the Angus Glens and is within easy reach of Dundee and Aberdeen. It is our largest UK chemical manufacturing facility which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2022. The site has state-of-the-art manufacturing and testing facilities and produces a wide range of active ingredients for some of our most important medicines including respiratory, HIV and dermatological products. Every day, an estimated 30 million people take a medicine that includes ingredients from Montrose.

    During your placement you will gain valuable experience as an organic chemist including:

    • The use of laboratory equipment including automated lab equipment.
    • Learning key laboratory procedures including reaction set up, distillations, crystallisations, drying, and column chromatography purification techniques.
    • The use of search engines including SciFinder to conduct literature searches to aid process development.
    • Analysing test results, data and writing technical reports.
    • You will also gain practical experience in spectroscopic characterisation (NMR/ FTIR and MS), reaction monitoring (open access HPLC), Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) and the regulatory aspects inherent in an active pharmaceutical environment.

    This role will particularly suit if you want to gain experience working in a manufacturing site laboratory and have a passion for organic chemistry.

    Who are we looking for?

    • A strong interest in organic chemistry
    • To be a team player
    • Be well organised
    • Strong interpersonal skills
    • Ability to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK’s culture

    What do we offer you?

    • A salary of £21,000, plus a bonus
    • Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs and pension plan membership
    • On-the-job experience and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring and training programs
    • A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
    • You will join a GSK Industrial Placement community of over 250 students across the UK and business areas
    • Access to LinkedIn groups to enable the new Industrial Placement community to network and connect before start date

    Let’s do this!