Location: King of Prussia,PA, USA
Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - King of Prussia
Posted Date: Nov 19 2024
Join the GSK's Biochemist Associate Apprentice Program - US, 2025: Help us get ahead of disease together
GSK Apprenticeships are full-time entry level opportunities that offer high school graduates and community college students the opportunity to begin their career while studying towards their associate degree. This associate degree is fully funded by GSK, which YES, means NO COLLEGE DEBT!
Education required:
* Must have earned a high school diploma or equivalency diploma by June 2025.
* High school GPA 2.5 ( B ) or above (4.0 scale)
* High school Algebra and Geometry or 2 units equivalent of academic math (GPA 2.5 or above in each case)
* High school English (GPA 2.5 or above)
* High school Biology or Chemistry (GPA 2.5 or above)
* Must have 0- 30 college credits
Preferred requirements:
* Have studied AP Biology, or Chemistry at High School
Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English
Other requirements:
* Must be 18 years of age by August 1, 2025
* Less than 2 years of related work experience since graduating from high school
* If offered a position the candidate must be willing to enroll, and meet entry requirements, with one of GSK's partnering community colleges or technical institutions, in the preferred related instruction course.
* Must live within 60-minute commute to GSK worksite and partner community college (either by public transportation or driving) and commute on a daily basis
Start date: August 2025
Application deadline: 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.
If you seem like a good fit based on your application form, we will invite you to complete our World of GSK online assessment. Please complete the World of GSK by the deadline provided. Next, we will invite you to complete a phone interview. If you succeed in the online assessment, and the phone interview, you will be invited to join us for the final stage: our Assessment Center
Assessment Center Date: May / June 2025
We want you to be motivated and passionate for the apprenticeship you apply to - we will only accept ONE apprenticeship application per candidate each year. Please do your research before applying and select the one apprenticeship you wish to apply to - good luck with your application!
Unsure of which apprenticeship you are best suited to? Please contact ...@gsk.com
Are you looking to gain a head start in your career where you can help positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for the Biochemist Associate Apprenticeship program at GSK today!
We are looking for highly motivated high school graduates with an interest in science who are looking to jump start their career in the biopharmaceutical industry. The apprenticeship program allows you to develop hands-on technical skills in our quality control labs while continuing your education.
Working at our biopharmaceutical manufacturing sites you will help to ensure we have the latest, safe, efficient, and reliable processes and equipment to deliver life-saving medicines and vaccines to people in 90% of the world's countries. This role will enable you to develop your skills in an industry that's making radical changes to the way it develops and manufactures products.
Ahead together with tailored training and career development
This entry-level development opportunity offers you the chance to study towards nationally recognized qualifications while gaining hands-on, paid on-the-job training.?Our apprentices attend college part-time studying theory elements of the apprenticeship while working at a GSK Biopharma Manufacturing facility.
Biochemist associate apprentices at Upper Merion will spend approx. 1 day per week studying towards an associate degree in Biotechnology at Montgomery County Community College. You will spend most of your week working in our quality labs, rotating through different departments, receiving tailored on-the-job training from our in-house industry experts. Over the 3- 4 years of the apprenticeship you will have a personal training program to help you develop and progress.
What will you do?
As a biochemist associate apprentice, you may get involved in the following activities:
* Operate specialist laboratory equipment and instrumentation to test our products and raw materials
* Learn about the process each drug or product follows from test tube through to full scale manufacturing
* Develop analytical testing skills in line with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP)
* Conduct microbiological & environmental sampling and testing
* Operate specialist equipment to improve testing procedures
* Learn how data and documentation is managed and reviewed in a highly regulated industry
* Develop your knowledge in biochemistry
* Work in a compliant manner to ensure the safety of yourself, others and the protection of the environment
What do we offer you?
* Fully funded college education (including tuition and books)
* A competitive salary
* An annual bonus based on company performance
* Retirement savings plan options with employer match contributions
* Generous time off with pay, in addition to end of year company-wide shutdown
* Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements
* Access to healthcare benefits and well-being programs
* Opportunities to work with Employee Resource groups that focus on encouraging inclusion & diversity
* A tailored, robust development plan aligned to your career aspirations and business needs, delivered by coaching and mentoring by managers and peers, and through virtual and in person courses
* On-the-job experience with support from industry professionals
* 2 volunteering days per year, called Together Days
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
(Note: As mentioned in Application Deadline section, GSK Apprentice recruitment will NOT require completion of the GSK Life job simulation, as outlined in the link above)
You can learn more about GSK and our careers here
Apply now!
We're?100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age,?color, 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?also?because?it's?the right thing to do.
Need help with your application?
Please email us at ...@gsk.com and let us know how we can help you.
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Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.
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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