Process Engineer - Micronising Technical Review

Item: Process Engineer - Micronising Technical at GSK
Rating: 3.9
Author: Anonymous

at GSK

Placement (10 Months+)

Chemical Engineering

Ware, Hertfordshire

Review Submitted: April 2023

Overall Rating

3.9 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

5/5 - Overview of Role

3.5/5 - Skills Development

4/5 - Support and Guidance

4.3/5 - Company Culture

3.5/5 - Overall Experience

3/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Micronising production support from a process and product perspective. This includes process improvement work, as well as deviation investigation and validation support.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Given a significant amount of responsibility when it came to leading projects or investigations. However, there were always people to support and help out if anything was unclear or new to me.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

Big development in communication between different teams on site and developed a deeper understanding of the workings of a pharmaceutical company.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

3/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

3/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

4/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

There was always support available but often had to seek it myself which I found difficult to begin with, but helps to learn independence in the work place and most people are willing to help.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

4/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Very friendly people in the wide team, however often a top-down approach from higher up managers putting pressure on already very busy people.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

4/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

4/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I very much enjoyed my placement, I think there are certain areas for improvement (particularly the onboarding process where I felt a bit lost for a while at the beginning of my placement). Also, I often found my work and responsibility of my team to not be directly related to chemical engineering.