I spent my placement working on a new £100m automated aseptic facility in which I helped deploy the main control system

What was the highlight of your Placement?

I spent my placement working on a new £100m automated aseptic facility in which I helped deploy the main control system. My experience has helped me gain so much invaluable experience particularly when COVID started and especially since I worked at a pharmaceutical company. The highlight of my placement is when I got classified as a key worker and our project got put on an accelerated schedule, this has given me the opportunity to complete a lot of additional projects and extended my placement by an additional two months.

How did you find your role?

On the Career Connect website.

One piece of advice would you give to students who are considering taking a Placement?

Do it, the experience is invaluable!

What did GSK think?

During his year with GSK Barnard Castle, Ahmed has been a key part of our mission to deliver the companies first truly paperless Aseptic filling facility which will deliver life changing medicines to our patients from 2021. He has taken the facility from first power on to a fully validated state, delivering a plant wide SCADA package which is fully integrated into all systems in the facility. This has built on his learnings from university and put them into practice in the real world, Tuning PID loops and fault finding complex electrical and computer system issues along the way.