Polytechnic Intern

**Help us get ahead of disease together with our Vaccines Business Area / Biotechnologist Internship, 2025**:
**Education required**: Current student studying a Diploma course from accredited polytechnic, from School of Applied Science/Chemical and Life Sciences with a focus in Chemical, Pharmaceutical & Biologics

**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?**
- Support the operations team in managing the daily production activities, including maintaining general housekeeping of the facility
- Drive continuous improvement to GPS tier board in the facility
- Coordinating with the stakeholders from Logistics department, Technical Services and Operations to ensure key deliverables are met
- Able to drive improvement projects for the operations team
- Support in the revision of operational/safety documents

**What will you learn?**
- Performed production activities such as equipment cleaning, small portable equipment calibration and verification in the purification department
- Able to support daily facility housekeeping
- Be trained in purification processes and know the requirement to be a Biotechnologist

**What are we looking for?**
- A lively interest in science, the commercial world and the biopharma industry
- Appetite to work as a business partner, building strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Adaptability to change and working under pressure
- Excellent communication skills that help you influence
- Strong problem-solving skills driven by curiosity
- Drive and confidence to trust your own judgment
- Great project management skills and the ability to prioritise

**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**

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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