Polytechnic Internship

**Help us get ahead of disease together with our Quality Control (QC) Internship, 2025**:
**Education required**: Current student studying a Diploma course from accredited polytechnic, preferably from School of Applied Sciences focusing on Chemistry

**Other requirements**: Must be enrolled at a polytechnic in Singapore for the duration of your internship and doing a credit-bearing internship

**Language requirement**: Written and spoken fluency in English

**Internship period**: March to August 2025

**Application deadline**: Mid-December 2024

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.

With an investment of S$510 million, our state-of-the-art vaccines manufacturing facility at Tuas was opened in June 2009 by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, coinciding with our 50th anniversary in Singapore. Comprising two production buildings, an administration block, quality control laboratories, utility plant and warehousing, the facility became operational in 2011. The facility and operations meet the high quality and good manufacturing standards of global regulatory bodies such as the European Medicines Agency and the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Tuas is a key manufacturing site within our network supplying the active ingredient used to make our pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. This paediatric vaccine is indicated for the active immunisation against pneumonia, invasive diseases and acute otitis media caused by _Streptococcus pneumoniae_ in infants and children.

Tuas site also focuses on manufacturing Hib (_Haemophilus influenzae type b_) antigen which is used in the manufacture of several paediatric vaccines. Hib is a bacterium responsible for invasive diseases, such as severe pneumonia and meningitis, contracted almost exclusively by children less than five years old.

These two vaccine products manufactured at Tuas cover a number of diseases causing paediatric mortality in the world, making a significant contribution to our global health agenda. The site continues to invest in developing technical capability and process improvement, and embracing new technology such as digital, data and analytics to position itself as a centre of excellence for the manufacture of vaccines.

**What will you do?**
- To assist in day-to-day operations of the laboratory
- To perform tasks as assigned by QC Lab manager
- To assist in 6S/housekeeping for the laboratory
- To assist in audits and inspections
- To revise Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for corrective actions and improvements
- Execute and support equipment/software/method validation and performs (re)validation when necessary
- Review required chemistry testings for utilities, raw materials, manufacturing processes and products and ensure that the tests are analyzed in accordance with corporate, regulatory and external agency regulations
- Enforce all laboratory policies and practices, and ensure that all in-use procedures are current and compliant
- Maintains all safety and security policies and practices

**What will you learn?**
- To be able to execute tasks related to laboratory activities
- Understanding Good Laboratory practices
- Be competent in technical skills in the following: laboratory equipment qualification
- Computer system validation
- Gain knowledge of current Good Laboratory Practices (cGLP) and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)
- Effective report writing skills
- Gain knowledge on up-to-date on the regulations concerning biopharmaceutical QC activities
- Identifies and reports problems in QC. Solves problems and implements corrective actions

**What are we looking for?**

**Business Skills and Competencies**
- Proficient in use of IT and software/systems, ideally document management and database systems
- Good command of English

**Behavioral Skills and Competencies**
- Strong written and oral communication skills, good interpersonal skills
- Deadline-driven, flexible with self-reliance to work in an empowered environment
- Awareness and ability to work within culturally diverse teams
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, think and work independently, and problem-solve
- Strong drive for performance and attention to details
- A keen interest in consumer healthcare science, product and development, and a passion for knowledge

**What do we offer you?**
- Understand and experience the GSK Culture
- Work with a diversified team of professionals
- A supportive and collaborative work environment
- As this is an onsite role, there will be 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.

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