Quality Science Graduate Program, Marietta, US, 2027
GSK
Summary
Join the GSK Quality Science Graduate Program at our Marietta, PA site. This two-year Global Supply Chain Graduate Program is designed for talented, driven students or graduates eager to make an impact on patients' lives. You will apply your scientific, engineering, or digital knowledge to real manufacturing challenges while developing through rotations, training, and mentoring.
Job description
What You'll Experience
- Cross-Functional Exposure: Spend time at your home site, working on cross-functional projects and rotations to deepen your expertise and knowledge of the business.
- Kaizen Assignment: A short-term breadth assignment, which could include global-focused opportunities, to expand your skills and experience beyond your home site.
- Tailored Training: Benefit from role-specific training and development, supported by a generous training budget and access to enriching resources.
- Professional & Personal Growth: Thrive in a challenging yet supportive environment, where you'll develop technical expertise through valuable on-the-job experience.
Key Program Features
- Digital Data & Analytics (DDA) Objective: Each rotation has a DDA focus, reflecting GSK's commitment to innovation and continuous improvement, helping you to advance pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
- Sustainability Element: Contribute to GSK's Net Carbon Zero mission by working on impactful projects that promote environmental sustainability.
- Mentoring & Networking: Build your professional network and enhance visibility through direct access to senior leaders and mentors who will guide and support your career development.
What will you do?
- Regulatory Insight: Build your knowledge of industry regulations and the critical role of compliance in a highly regulated environment.
- Hands-On Lab and Production Experience: Work in state-of-the-art quality testing laboratories and manufacturing facilities, mastering analytical techniques (Wet Chemistry, Chromatography, Microbiology, etc.) and gaining experience across the production process with raw materials, intermediate products, finished products, sterility, and environmental testing.
- Comprehensive Quality Control: Learn how different elements of the pharmaceutical manufacturing process interact to ensure uncompromised product quality.
- Quality Systems & Analytics: Dive into quality systems, ensuring the application of GSK quality standards in operations such as deviations, corrective and preventative actions, change control, and documentation.
- Risk and Compliance: Develop understanding of risk management and compliance critical to pharmaceutical manufacturing.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with teams across manufacturing, quality, technical services, R&D and supply chain to introduce new products and/or testing methods seamlessly.
- Sustainability focus: Work on projects focused on sustainability, waste reduction, and green lab initiatives, contributing to GSK's Net Carbon Zero mission.
- Continuous Improvement focus: Enhance your problem-solving skills through contributing to performance improvement projects using advanced problem-solving techniques (DMAIC, Lean Six Sigma).
What skills are we looking for?
- Technical Curiosity: Interest in science, quality and pharmaceutical manufacturing, and willingness to learn how the work supports patients.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset: A focus on growth, innovation with the ability to simplify complex processes, and apply innovative thinking.
- Digital mindset: You're interested in using data and emerging technologies to improve performance.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Works accurately using agreed checks and applies structured problem-solving methods.
- Priority Management: Able to manage changing priorities, with clear goals, appropriate support and agreed deadlines.
- Communication and Collaboration: Explains information clearly, listens to others and adapts communication for the audience.
- Ownership and Support: Takes ownership of agreed tasks, asks questions and seeks support when needed.
- Adaptability: Responds constructively when priorities change and seeks support or clarification when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical science or a related field of study
- Written and spoken fluency in English
- Graduation date by August 2027
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
- Personalized development plan
- Coaching and mentoring
- LinkedIn Learning access
- Employee Resource Groups
- Complimentary premium Calm membership
- Employee recognition programs
- Two paid volunteering days
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support
- Employee Assistance Program
Company overview
GSK plc (formerly GlaxoSmithKline) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in London, England. Founded in 2000 through the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, GSK has grown to become one of the world's leading healthcare companies with operations in over 150 countries. The company specializes in researching, developing, and manufacturing prescription medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products. GSK's therapeutic areas include respiratory diseases, HIV/AIDS, oncology, immunology, and infectious diseases. The company is particularly renowned for its vaccine portfolio and has been at the forefront of developing treatments for major global health challenges. With approximately 70,000 employees worldwide, GSK maintains a strong commitment to scientific innovation and has a significant presence in key markets including the United States, Europe, and emerging economies. The company's mission is to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade.