Chemical Engineering Graduate Programme, Italy, 2025

**Site Name**: Italy - Parma
**Posted Date**: Oct 7 2024

**Join the **GSK** **Automation Engineering** **Graduate **Programme** - Parma, **Italy **202**5**:Help us **get ahead of disease **together**

**Education required**: BSc or MSc degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry or equivalent. Graduation by August 2025 to start from September 2025.

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

**Other requirements**: Willingness to be geographically mobile (domestic) throughout rotations

**Location**: Parma, Italy

**Start date**: September 2025

**Assessment Centre Date**: February 2025

The GSK Graduate Programme offers a unique opportunity to join our Global Supply Chain and play a key role in delivering life-saving medicines and vaccines to people in over 90% of the world.

At GSK, we are on an exciting journey to establish a world-class global supply chain that will support the delivery of our new product portfolio and pipeline. Within the Global Supply Chain business (GSC), our dedicated teams are responsible for manufacturing and distributing medicines and vaccines worldwide. They oversee every stage of production, from ensuring the creation of high-quality products at our manufacturing sites to developing effective supply forecasting and managing regulatory inspections—all powered by digital, data, and analytics.

We are seeking highly motivated graduates who are eager to grow into future engineering, operational, and technical roles within GSC. These positions involve working at our manufacturing sites to ensure the implementation of the latest, safe, efficient, and reliable processes and equipment. This programme presents an opportunity for you to cultivate your skills in an industry that is undergoing radical changes in the way it develops and manufactures products.

**Ahead together with tailored training and career development**

Whilst on the graduate programme, you can expect the following benefits:

- Challenging and supportive environment for your professional and personal growth
- Opportunities to network and enhance visibility with senior leaders who will mentor, coach, and support you with career planning
- Development of technical skills through valuable on-the-job experience
- Work in roles that are individually tailored according to your discipline, with the aim of meeting your aspirations, strengths and ambitions (along with the needs of the business)
- Access to a generous personal development budget to accelerate learning and professional growth
- Kaizens - short-term breadth projects that offer potential international exposure

**What will you do?**
- Act as point of contact for root cause analysis of material/product/processing/cleaning issues and rapid resolution. Where required using multiple sources of data and data interpretation methods. Take part in Continuous Improvement (CI) activities to highlight improvements to equipment and processes.
- Act as a point of contact for the top3 waste and top3 quality and for the technical issues collection and evaluation
- Act both independently and in cross-functional teams to manage projects. Ensuring delivery of the operational technical responsibilities and project timelines.
- Plan and conduct/supervise manufacture of batches with mínimal supervision. This is to ensure the project timescales are met and issues dealt with in real-time.
- Perform technical coaching of operators to ensure knowledge transfer to the ‘manufacturing shop floor’ allowing operators to improve their accountability and timeliness of issue resolution.
- Actively participate in projects to Support technology transfer of biopharma products:

- Ensure that all project team members and the Project Leader are kept fully informed of progress and any technical issues.
- Ensure that input is based on the best/up to date information/ available on site and within the Company.
- Ensure that the Project Leader is advised of any resource issues such that the project is properly resourced and effectively executed.
- Ensure that the Project Leader is kept advised of any changes impacting on execution such that they can monitor and update progress against the project plan.

**What are we looking for?**
- Technical aptitude, a passion for engineering, and a keen interest in pharmaceutical manufacturing
- A mindset focused on continuous improvement and growth, along with strong interpersonal skills and a positive approach
- The ability to listen, learn, and a genuine desire to make a meaningful impact on people’s lives through high-quality work
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, coupled with a collaborative approach to teamwork
- Self-motivation, proactiveness, and a strong eagerness for development and learning
- Analytical, organized, and process-driven, with exceptional attention to detail
- High adaptability and flexibility, with the ability to perform effectively under pressure and