6.4 KiB
6.4 KiB
Competences — pharmaceutical engineer
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e2a495fb-68a3-46f9-8753-6ce566a7a085).
Essential
- adjust engineering designs (skill/competence)
- analytical chemistry (knowledge)
- apply health and safety standards (skill/competence)
- approve engineering design (skill/competence)
- assess environmental impact (skill/competence)
- biological chemistry (knowledge)
- chemistry (knowledge)
- drug administration regulations (knowledge)
- engineering principles (knowledge)
- engineering processes (knowledge)
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation (skill/competence)
- ensure compliance with safety legislation (skill/competence)
- examine engineering principles (skill/competence)
- forecast organisational risks (skill/competence)
- good manufacturing practices (knowledge)
- human physiology (knowledge)
- industrial research and development (knowledge)
- monitor plant production (skill/competence)
- perform scientific research (skill/competence)
- pharmaceutical drug development (knowledge)
- pharmaceutical industry (knowledge)
- pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems (knowledge)
- test production input materials (skill/competence)
- use technical drawing software (skill/competence)
- work with chemicals (skill/competence)
- write batch record documentation (skill/competence)
- write technical reports (skill/competence)
Optional
- analyse medication's impact on brain (skill/competence)
- chemical preservation (knowledge)
- computational chemistry (knowledge)
- conduct public presentations (skill/competence)
- contribute to registration of pharmaceutical products (skill/competence)
- design pharmaceutical manufacturing systems (skill/competence)
- develop pharmaceutical drugs (skill/competence)
- electrical instrumentation engineering (knowledge)
- evaluate pharmaceutical manufacturing process (skill/competence)
- improve safety of medicines (skill/competence)
- industrial software (knowledge)
- intellectual property law (knowledge)
- laboratory techniques (knowledge)
- manage chemical testing procedures (skill/competence)
- manage pharmaceutical production facilities construction (skill/competence)
- mechanical engineering (knowledge)
- packaging engineering (knowledge)
- perform chemical experiments (skill/competence)
- pharmaceutical chemistry (knowledge)
- pharmaceutical legislation (knowledge)
- pharmacology (knowledge)
- pharmacovigilance legislation (knowledge)
- provide technical expertise (skill/competence)
- quality assurance methodologies (knowledge)
- scientific literature (knowledge)
- software architecture models (knowledge)
- supply chain management (knowledge)
- test chemical samples (skill/competence)
- test pharmaceutical process (skill/competence)
- toxicology (knowledge)
- types of packaging materials (knowledge)
- use chemical analysis equipment (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 8 ads, as of 2026-07-18)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- process validation — 50 %
- root cause analysis — 50 %
- risk assessment — 38 %
- process monitoring — 38 %
- continuous process verification (cpv) — 38 %
- data trending — 38 %
- equipment qualification — 38 %
- aggregation — 25 %
- process optimization — 25 %
- regulatory compliance — 25 %
- serialization — 25 %
- technology transfer — 25 %
- troubleshooting — 12 %
- serialization implementation — 12 %
- validation studies — 12 %
- regulatory filing — 12 %
- process improvement — 12 %
- process qualification — 12 %
- problem solving — 12 %
- process automation — 12 %
- process characterization — 12 %
- process development — 12 %
- lyophilization — 12 %
- pharmaceutical manufacturing — 12 %
- pharmaceutical process design — 12 %
- aseptic manufacturing — 12 %
- aseptic processing — 12 %
- capital project management — 12 %
- equipment selection — 12 %
- equipment sizing — 12 %
Methods
- lean manufacturing — 38 %
- weibull analysis — 38 %
- six sigma — 38 %
- kaizen — 25 %
- fmea — 25 %
- fmea (failure mode and effects analysis) — 25 %
- GMP — 25 %
- qbd (quality by design) — 25 %
- rcm (reliability-centered maintenance) — 25 %
- reliability engineering — 12 %
- qbd — 12 %
- RCA — 12 %
- rcm — 12 %
- project management — 12 %
- OE methodologies — 12 %
- haccp — 12 %
- kaizen methodologies — 12 %
- LEAN methodologies — 12 %
- cGMP — 12 %
- CIP — 12 %
- COP — 12 %
- CAPA — 12 %
- SIP — 12 %
- sustainability operations — 12 %
Responsibilities
- capa development — 38 %
- equipment lifecycle management — 38 %
- data analysis — 25 %
- cost reduction — 25 %
- process improvement — 25 %
- technical investigation — 25 %
- yield improvement — 25 %
- yield improvement projects — 12 %
- technical documentation development — 12 %
- technical investigation leadership — 12 %
- technical leadership — 12 %
- team collaboration — 12 %
- troubleshooting — 12 %
- utility system design — 12 %
- technology transfer — 12 %
- technology transfer support — 12 %
- stakeholder communication — 12 %
- project coordination — 12 %
- project execution — 12 %
- project management — 12 %
- regulatory audit support — 12 %
- regulatory compliance — 12 %
- regulatory compliance support — 12 %
- fault analysis — 12 %
- process equipment selection — 12 %
- process implementation — 12 %
- process risk assessment — 12 %
- process standardization — 12 %
- process support — 12 %
- cost reduction projects — 12 %
- cpv program maintenance — 12 %
- cad designer direction — 12 %
- collaboration with manufacturing teams — 12 %
- auditing support — 12 %
- equipment maintenance — 12 %
- design documentation preparation — 12 %
- engineering initiative support — 12 %
- issue resolution — 12 %