Internship: Lab Automation

**Site Name**: Belgium-Rixensart
**Posted Date**: Jan 8 2025

**Help us get ahead of disease together with our Internship Programme**:
**Education required**: You are regularly **enrolled** in Master’s degree in Engineering, Statistics, IT, computer science, electrical engineering or Automation in an Educational Establishment located in Europe.

**Language requirement**: French, English is a must

**Other requirements**:

- Process Specific Automation Design and Development, Testing and Validation
- C programming; Deployment of ML models

**Expected start date**: As soon as possible

**Duration**:6 months minimum

**Requisite**: The internship must be mandatory & done in the framework of the curriculum, for which an agreement must be signed between GSK, the student and the Educational Establishment.

**Remuneration**: according to Belgian legal requirements, the internship will not be paid. However, some expenses will be reimbursed.

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.

**What will you do?**:

- Design Automation Blocks: c_reate parametric automation blocks with built-in failure scenarios for upstream and downstream processes._
- Sensor and Actuator Selection: choose appropriate sensors and actuators based on specific process constraints.
- System Development: develop and implement automation systems for both upstream and downstream operations.
- Documentation: prepare comprehensive design documentation, process flow diagrams, and mechanical structure drawings.
- Develop specific tailored experiments on automation platform to test it
- Collaborate with different teams and be willing to provide them the best support possible.
- Select the most appropriate sensors and actuators for a pharmaceutical environment.
- Propose and implement pragmatic solutions to address operational technical and scientific issues while considering already existing knowledge
- Look for appropriate data sources and communication between the platform and GSK systems
- Actively participate to internal meetings including scientific / technical presentations for information or decision making
- Consult other team members to ensure consistency of the scientific/ technical approach or strategy
- Train equipment users on developed system after implementation
- Support scientists by troubleshooting issues they might encounter and create protocols to help them in their daily activities.

**What are we looking for?**:

- A lively interest in R&D and the biopharma industry
- Willingness to learn and be challenged in a fast-growing environment
- Appetite to debunk and communicate about very advanced automation solutions.
- 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 prioritize

**Let’s do this**:
We’re 100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients. And because it’s the right thing to do.

You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK gsk.to/DEI

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If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

**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 ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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