Graduate Program Associate - Manufacturing Packaging presso Gilead

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
 

Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.
 

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description
 

Graduate Opportunity – Manufacturing Packaging

About Gilead:
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercialises innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

The Position
We have an opportunity for a Graduate to join our team for a 2 year programme, working within the Packaging department of our Manufacturing function and rotating to key relevant areas as below. Throughout this time, the successful candidate will be developed and mentored to aid your on the job learning.
The Packaging department in Gilead Cork, is a fast paced environment that performs both primary and secondary packaging activities to meet our patient needs. Primary packaging involves both bottle and blister packaging technology, the secondary packaging covers bottles, vials and blister presentations into cartons as a finished good for patients. The technology used is state of the art including track and trace (anti counterfeiting), high levels of automation and vision systems as well as a key focus on process optimisation, operational excellence and data analytics. The packaging department interacts with all other departments on site and with our distribution center in Dublin.
This role covers both the Engineering and Operations activities and offers a graduate the opportunity to work with many departments including Engineering, Quality, Automation, Validation & Supply Chain.

Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will rotate into key areas, building responsibility and experience in the below:
• Develop experience in, support and be responsible for areas as appropriate across Operations, cGMP, process and mechanical engineering, serialisation and aggregation, data analytics and problem solving, packaging engineering and material sciences.
• Provide support to operational areas.
• Support projects as required.
• Identify and support operational excellence activities.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills
• A minimum 2.1 level 8 degree in a related area such as Science, Mechanical, Material, Packaging or Chemical Engineering.
• Good problem solving and attention to detail.
• Highly adaptable and displaying good initiative.
• Strong communication, team player and ability to build effective relationships.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Gilead Core Values
• Integrity (Doing What’s Right)
• Teamwork (Working Together)
• Excellence (Being Your Best)
• Accountability (Taking Personnel Responsibility)
Graduate Opportunity – Manufacturing Packaging
• Inclusion (Encouraging Diversity)

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company.  Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all  employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws).  Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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