Internship: Carbon footprint comparison between a blister presentation and a full cardboard presentation, including associated process (Sustainability) , Belgium – 2022

Exciting minds with our Internship Programme

Education required: You are regularly enrolled in a Bachelor/Master in packaging, engineering or environment in an Educational Establishment located in Europe.

Language requirement: English, and ideally French

Other requirements:

• Knowledge of packaging materials and packaging process is an advantage.
• Concerned about environment, ideally knowledge in environmental impact analysis (LCA tools)
• Knowledge of 3D design software is an advantage
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment, with some autonomy

Start date: Between January and June 2022

Duration:Between 4,5 months to 6 months

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.

Application deadline: We recommend you apply as soon as possible, because we accept ongoing applications and we will close the position once we have enough matching candidates

What will you do?

On our internship programme you’ll receive tailored on-the-job training from industry experts combined with early responsibility to help you to develop and progress.

Your duties might include:

• to identify parameters to be considered to evaluate carbon footprint of a packaging presentation.
• to map de packaging process of both concepts (blister versus full cardboard)
• to evaluate carbon footprint of both concepts, including tertiary packaging and distribution when relevant.
• to make recommendation from sustainability perspective (carbon footprint, water consumption,)
• to interact with packaging components suppliers and packaging sites.

You’ll be excited by the thought of:

• Contributing to GSK Vaccines Portfolio evolution
• Contributing to the sustainability strategy developed by GSK Vaccines,
• Learning on secondary packaging process in a pharma company.
• Building your knowledge of large pharma organisation
• Developing your intercultural skills and ability to work within transversal team

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Once our pioneering treatments have been developed, they are manufactured to the highest standards and distributed across the regions that need them most. Accomplishing this as efficiently and quickly as possible can quite literally be a matter of life and death. So, it’s no wonder that more than 70% of our talented workforce is based within Global Industrial Operations - the essential business unit that manufactures and manages the entire vaccine supply process, from customer order to product dispatch on a global scale.

As the name suggests, it operates in a multi-national context across more than 17 sites around the world, working closely in tandem with colleagues from a variety of disciplines and professions.

The department is structured in operating units that focus on various aspects of the manufacturing and supply process. These include Industrialisation (overseeing the transfer of production from R&D to a commercial level), Supply Chain Management and Technical Services.

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