Occupation Atlaspharmaceutical engineer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e2a495fb-68a3-46f9-8753-6ce566a7a085
pharmaceutical engineer
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.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (27)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adjust engineering designs
- analytical chemistry
- apply health and safety standards
- approve engineering design
- assess environmental impact
- biological chemistry
- chemistry
- drug administration regulations
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- ensure compliance with safety legislation
- examine engineering principles
- forecast organisational risks
- good manufacturing practices
- human physiology
- industrial research and development
- monitor plant production
- perform scientific research
- pharmaceutical drug development
- pharmaceutical industry
- pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems
- test production input materials
- use technical drawing software
- work with chemicals
- write batch record documentation
- write technical reports
Optional (32)
- analyse medication's impact on brain
- chemical preservation
- computational chemistry
- conduct public presentations
- contribute to registration of pharmaceutical products
- design pharmaceutical manufacturing systems
- develop pharmaceutical drugs
- electrical instrumentation engineering
- evaluate pharmaceutical manufacturing process
- improve safety of medicines
- industrial software
- intellectual property law
- laboratory techniques
- manage chemical testing procedures
- manage pharmaceutical production facilities construction
- mechanical engineering
- packaging engineering
- perform chemical experiments
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmaceutical legislation
- pharmacology
- pharmacovigilance legislation
- provide technical expertise
- quality assurance methodologies
- scientific literature
- software architecture models
- supply chain management
- test chemical samples
- test pharmaceutical process
- toxicology
- types of packaging materials
- use chemical analysis equipment
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