With a background as a mechanical engineer, you’d have 3 options.
Option 1 – Retrain for Maintenance/Facility/Plant Roles
Retrain for Maintenance, Facility or Plant Engineer roles in pharmaceutical or medical device companies.
Pharma needs purified water and clean air systems to manufacture safe medicines that are used for injections. These aseptic processes have to be designed, validated, monitored, maintained and updated in FDA-regulated manufacturing facilities.
So, take our 18-week Conversion Course into Engineering Roles in Pharma (Click on this link https://www.getreskilled.com/conversion-to-engineering-roles-in-pharma/) to learn GMPs and how safe medicines are made in a regulated environment. You will also learn the air, water and steam systems that underpin aseptic/sterile processing.
Then take our 10-Week Online Starter Validation program (Click on this link https://www.getreskilled.com/validation-for-process-and-project-engineers/) to learn how those systems are qualified.
Option 2 – Retrain for Validation Roles
Retrain for validation roles in both pharmaceutical companies and engineering consultancies.
First, take our 15-week Validation Training Course – For Starter Validation Roles (Click on this link https://www.getreskilled.com/iq-oq-pq/)
This course explains the documentation used to specify and install new equipment systems in a manufacturing facility – and how to develop the test protocols, generally referred to as Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ).
As the final assessment, you will learn to complete an IOQ validation protocol for a clean-in-place system.
Typical roles:
- Validation Technician – Some pharma companies call this role:
- Associate QA Validation Specialist
- Equipment Validation Specialist
- QA Validation Associate
- QA Validation Specialist
- CQV Specialist – Some pharma companies call this role:
- CQV Junior Engineer
- C&Q Specialist
- C&Q Junior Project Manager
With validation, CQV and C&Q roles, you could work directly for:
- pharmaceutical companies on in-house projects
- engineering consultancies as part of a project team on small to large capital projects
- engineering contractors as part of a project team on small to large capital projects
Options for further study.
Take our 30-week online Certificate in Validation program for More Senior Validation, CQV and C&Q Roles (Click on this link https://www.getreskilled.com/certificate-in-validation/) to get aNFQ level 7 university qualification from Technological University Dublin, Ireland and a more interesting job with a higher salary such as;
- Validation Engineer
- CQV Engineer
- C&Q Engineer
- Manager / Associate Manager – QA Validation
- Mgr/ Snr Mgr QA Validation Oversight
- QA Validation Engineer
- Quality & Validation Engineer
- Quality Assurance Engineer (Validation)
- Quality Validation Engineer
- Senior Validation Engineer
- Staff Engineer, Quality/Validation
- Validation Scientist
Then take our Computer System Validation Course (Click on this link https://www.getreskilled.com/computer-system-validation-course/) and extend your role to CSV Projects. Round out your qualifications and give yourself a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Option 3 – Cross-Train for Design Roles
Cross-Train for mechanical design roles with engineering consultancies
CAD Experience including SolidWorks and AutoCAD are usual requirements. In addition, take our 10-week Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technologies (Click on this link https://www.getreskilled.com/fundamentals-of-pharmaceutical-manufacturing/) to learn about Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and 7 risk management techniques used in the FDA-regulated manufacturing environment.