Level 3 Manufacturing Process Operator Apprenticeship, Irvine, UK, 2025

Join GSK’s Manufacturing Process Operator Apprentice Programme – UK, 2025: Help us get ahead of disease together and earn while you learn  

GSK Apprenticeships are full-time, early starter jobs that offer Year 13 secondary school and post-16 students the opportunity to begin their career while studying towards a qualification. This qualification is fully funded by GSK so that you can avoid having any debt. 

This role is based in Irvine where we manufacture the active ingredients and starting material for an antibiotic belonging to a group of drugs called penicillin. Around 135 million patients are treated with our finished product each year in over 140 countries. 

Education required  

• Must have/be predicted to achieve a minimum of five National 4/5 (previously standard grades) or equivalent, including Mathematics, English and Science. 

Plus 

• One higher grade (or equivalent), preferably in a Maths or a Science subject. 

Other requirements: 

• If offered a position the candidate must be willing to enroll and meet entry requirements. 

• Must be able to commute to either the Irvine site or Kilmarnock College. 

• Irvine is a penicillin manufacturing site. Please consider this if you are allergic to beta-lactam penicillin. 

Expected Start date: August 2025 

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

Assessment centre date: Assessment centres for shortlisted candidates will be held between February and April 2025. 

 We want you to feel truly motivated and passionate about the Apprenticeship you choose. Take the time to research thoroughly before applying, as you’ll need to show us why this role is the role for you. Wishing you the best of luck with your application! 

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 Irvine Apprenticeship programme at GSK today! 

You will be working at GSK’s Irvine’s manufacturing facility where you’ll be learning how to maintain and improve our pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment and facilities, helping to ensure we can make the medicines and vaccines that we supply to patients. 

Here’s how one of our current Manufacturing Process Operator Apprentices describes their role: 

Elisha Bennison, Process Operator (former apprentice): 

“The role involves variety, with different jobs each shift based on a rotation – so every day is different. You can be in the control room running the extraction plant one day and kegging our final product the next. 

You will be monitoring the equ