Polytechnic Internship - Quality Control, Singapore (March to August 2025)

GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline

Quality Assurance
Tuas, Singapore
Posted on Oct 11, 2024

Help us get ahead of disease together with our Quality Control (QC) Internship, 2025:

Education required: Current student studying a Diploma course from accredited polytechnic, preferably from School of Applied Sciences focusing on Chemistry

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

We recommend you apply as soon as possible. We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can, so your application can be considered.

Are you looking to gain valuable work experience and help to positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for a GSK Internship today!

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?

  • To assist in day-to-day operations of the laboratory

  • To perform tasks as assigned by QC Lab manager

  • To assist in 6S/housekeeping for the laboratory

  • To assist in audits and inspections

  • To revise Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for corrective actions and improvements

  • Execute and support equipment/software/method validation and performs (re)validation when necessary

  • Review required chemistry testings for utilities, raw materials, manufacturing processes and products and ensure that the tests are analyzed in accordance with corporate, regulatory and external agency regulations

  • Enforce all laboratory policies and practices, and ensure that all in-use procedures are current and compliant

  • Maintains all safety and security policies and practices

What will you learn?

  • To be able to execute tasks related to laboratory activities

  • Understanding Good Laboratory practices

  • Be competent in technical skills in the following: laboratory equipment qualification

  • Computer system validation

  • Gain knowledge of current Good Laboratory Practices (cGLP) and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)

  • Effective report writing skills

  • Gain knowledge on up-to-date on the regulations concerning biopharmaceutical QC activities

  • Identifies and reports problems in QC. Solves problems and implements corrective actions

What are we looking for?

Business Skills and Competencies

  • Proficient in use of IT and software/systems, ideally document management and database systems

  • Good command of English

Behavioral Skills and Competencies

  • Strong written and oral communication skills, good interpersonal skills

  • Deadline-driven, flexible with self-reliance to work in an empowered environment

  • Awareness and ability to work within culturally diverse teams

  • Demonstrated ability to take initiative, think and work independently, and problem-solve

  • Strong drive for performance and attention to details

  • A keen interest in consumer healthcare science, product and development, and a passion for knowledge

What do we offer you?

  • Understand and experience the GSK Culture

  • Work with a diversified team of professionals

  • A supportive and collaborative work environment

  • Apply and develop soft skills such as interpersonal, communications and negotiation skills

  • 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!

You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website.

Learn more about the application process: gsk.to/ETprocess

Hear more from our past interns here: What do our interns like about working at GSK?

Get some tips from our interns: Top Tips from Our Interns

You can learn more about GSK and our careers here https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/careers/

Apply now!

Need help with your application?

Please email us at apac.earlycareers@gsk.com and let us know how we can help you.

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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