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Our Summer Internships are open to current students and recent graduates (within the last two years) and are designed to help you kickstart your career. You'll take on real responsibilities with genuine impact, working on meaningful projects and assignments. Throughout your internship, you'll learn from experts across GSK, develop your skills, and gain valuable experience to support wherever your future takes you.

Eligible Degrees / Level

This role has specific degrees. Please review these carefully and only select if they match your field of study. Please remember internships are only open to students currently studying for a degree or those who have graduated within the last two years.

Language Requirement

Written and spoken fluency in English.

Locations

This internship is full‑time and based at Montrose - Angus, Scotland

GSK's Montrose site is a key UK manufacturing facility producing active pharmaceutical ingredients for major medicines, including treatments for respiratory disease, HIV and vaccines. The site has seen significant long‑term investment in state‑of‑the‑art facilities, strengthening its role in GSK's global supply network. Montrose is recognised for its advanced manufacturing capability and highly skilled workforce.

Please ensure you can commit to the site before applying. Travel and accommodation expenses are not provided.

Start Dates

The Internship will start between the end of May and July.

Duration

The internship is for 12 weeks. Please ensure you can commit to the full duration before applying.

Salary

This is a paid internship. Salary will vary based on location and education level.

Application Deadline

We encourage early applications. Candidates are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the advert may close at any time.

The Role - Mechanical Engineering, Montrose

Eligible degrees: Applicants should be studying Mechanical Engineering or a mechanical engineering discipline.

About the role

This placement sits within the Engineering organisation at the Montrose manufacturing site, which produces a range of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) used in respiratory, dermatological and HIV medicines.

You will work with the Production Engineering team, a multidisciplinary group providing engineering support across five major manufacturing areas. The team includes Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Inspection, HVAC Engineering, Reliability Engineering, and Engineering Maintenance.

Day‑to‑day, the department:

• Responds to plant breakdowns to restore equipment availability
• Works on long‑term improvements to plant efficiency, operability, maintainability, and compliance
• Supports utilities, site infrastructure strategies, and wider engineering problem‑solving across the business

What You'll Experience

• Maintenance Planning & Execution
  Establishing and implementing maintenance tasks and plans to ensure equipment reliability and availability.
• Engineering Design Improvements
  Identifying and proposing mechanical design changes to improve plant performance, operability, or safety.
• Engineering Standards & Compliance
  Supporting actions that enhance compliance with engineering standards, procedures, and regulatory expectations.
• Problem-Solving & Root Cause Thinking
  Exposure to engineering investigations, breakdown analysis, and technical troubleshooting.
• Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration
  Working with mechanical inspection, HVAC, reliability, and maintenance teams to understand the full lifecycle of plant equipment.
• Technical Skills Development
  Strengthening data analysis, communication, time management, teamwork, and practical engineering skills in a live manufacturing environment.

Apply now!

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages - you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a Summer Internship with GSK for 2026:

1. Complete the Eligibility Questionnaire
2. Access Connectr
3. Complete the GSK Digital Assessment
4. Record Your Video Interview

GSK are 100% open to all talent. They want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so they can better serve the inclusion of our patients and because it's the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion at GSK here.

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Thank you for your interest in joining GSK. Once you have submitted your application please be aware that you may not hear from us immediately; however, we aim to respond to your application within 48 hours. When we get back to you, we'll provide clear, step‑by‑step guidance on the next stages of the recruitment process.

We appreciate your patience and your interest in contributing to GSK's purpose of uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together

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