pharmaceutical engineer
Code 2145.1.9
Pharmaceutical engineers design and develop technologies used in pharmaceutical research and drugs manufacture, advising the pharmaceutical manufacturing plants to maintain and operate those technologies and ensuring the customers` and workers` safety requirements are met. They may also be involved in the conception and design of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and research centers.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- good manufacturing practices
- pharmaceutical drug development
- human physiology
- pharmaceutical industry
- drug administration regulations
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- chemistry
- analytical chemistry
- biological chemistry
- pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems
Skills and competences
- test production input materials
- apply health and safety standards
- approve engineering design
- examine engineering principles
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- ensure compliance with safety legislation
- perform scientific research
- adjust engineering designs
- forecast organisational risks
- write technical reports
- monitor plant production
- work with chemicals
- use technical drawing software
Transversal competences
- assess environmental impact
- think analytically
- write batch record documentation
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences