DURATION
2 Modules over 15 Weeks
Study Online 14 hrs/week
LEVEL
Starter – Intermediate
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Wednesday 7th October
Class Starts: 15th Oct
This Course is Right For You If;
- You want to get from your current industry to working in a mechanical, plant, maintenance or facility engineering role in the Pharma and Med Device industry as fast as possible.
You already have an engineering degree and don’t want another university qualification at the same or lower level.
You want end-of-week progress checks and follow up by us to MAKE SURE you finish the course.
- It’s delivered Part-Time online so you can learn from home (or anywhere). Study after the kids have gone to bed.
What Kind of Engineering Roles Could I Retrain For?
- Mechanical Engineering
- Plant Engineering
- Maintenance Engineering
- Facility Engineering
- Quality/Environmental Engineering
- Manufacturing/Production Engineering (Medical Device Manufacturing)
- Validation Engineering (with our add on validation program)
I already have an engineering degree. So why take this course?
Your skills are a great foundation for engineering roles in the pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing industry and the engineering consultancies who work within this sector. But you need more..
You need to understand the industry regulations, the different regulatory standards (US, European, World Health Organization, etc), work practices, approaches to risk management, data integrity approaches, and industry protocols that are critical in the manufacture of safe medicines.
You also need to understand how the air, water and steam systems that underpin and support aseptic/sterile processing and cleanroom manufacturing work.
Minimum Entry Requirements
You must be one of the following;
- Mechanical Engineer/Technician
- Maintenance Engineer/Technician
- Facilities Engineer/Technician
- Plant Engineer/Technician
- Production Engineer
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Industrial Engineer
- Civil Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Graduate Engineer of any of the above
What you’ll learn:
There are 2 modules in this 15-week program
Module 1 – Manufacturing Safe Medicines (Weeks 1-5)
In this module, you’ll learn about the systems used in pharmaceutical manufacturing. You’ll learn about the rules and regulations such as Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) that you need to follow. And you’ll learn enough technical information to get you talking to employers.
Module 2 – Pharmaceutical Facility Design (Weeks 6 -15)
How do you make sure that the cleanrooms used in the manufacture of sterile medicines are absolutely safe? How do you make sure the water, steam and air used are pure? In this practical course, you will learn all this and more.
Hear From People Who’ve Taken This Course
John Ryan
“The course content material is concise and interesting”
“The professionalism and passion of the lecturers comes across in the tutorials which gives the student confidence and encouragement to keep on top of the course. The course content material is concise and interesting. The timing of the release of the lessons is perfect, the student moves at a comfortable pace, one step at a time.”
Ronan Balfe
“I would have no hesitation in recommending these courses”
“Studying online gives you the time to do the course in your own time yet with assignment deadlines this made you disciplined to meet the deadlines set. I would have no hesitation in recommending these courses to anyone wishing to gain an education in the pharmaceutical sector.”
Edel Harkins
“Highly recommended to anyone who has been out of the industry for a period of time”
“I would highly recommend anyone in my situation who has been out of the industry for a period of time to do these courses. They have contributed to my new found confidence in my existing and new qualifications, my improved interview skills and my new job!”
Noel O’Brien
“The quality of the course content was excellent and very substantial and covered all aspects associated within the Pharmaceutical, Bio-Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries. Information that I feel could and would be very much a requirement for the type of work I would be seeking, within such companies.”
Ewa K.
“This course would give you chance to continue to seek an employment and at the same time you can study to improve your chances at the job market.”
James Fogarty
“This was fantastic opportunity for me to gain qualification in my own time. This would otherwise have been impossible due to cost and time due to child minding.”
Trish Kineen
“It has been a great course to re-familiarise myself with the area after such a long time away. I is also brilliant that you can study in your own time & at home (so you don’t have travel & child minding costs). I found the pace of the course good and really enjoyed it.”
Darren Deehan
“I have really enjoyed the course. The course content was very detailed and way surpassed my expectation. While the course was challenging, the online support and access was exceptional. I am really looking forward to progressing to the follow-on/specialization course, “BioValidation” when it becomes available.”
David Masterson
“The courses are detailed, easily accessible, great to add to your CV or to compliment other qualifications.”
Johan Rousseau
“Already told friends, and they are on the course. It is a good course to familiarize you with the Pharma Manufacturing Industry.”
Josephine Nelson
“I would recommend enrolling, the course is very interesting.”
Louise McManus
“Excellent course, well set out.”
Delivered by an Industry Expert
Dr. Joe Brady
Full-Time Validation Lead
Lecturer, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Senior Associate, GetReskilled
Dr. Joe Brady is full-time practicing Validation Lead and an assistant lecturer with Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), in the School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Joe is a certified trainer and highly experienced in competency-based training. He designs and prepares educational modules and full academic courses ranging from MSc, MEngSc. BSc, to Certificate level, for a range of academic institution.
He is also a supervisor for MSc/MEngSc and PhD theses. Joe has over twenty years of project experience in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and medical device industries in Ireland, Singapore, China, The Netherlands, France, and the USA.
What Does the Online Classroom Look Like?
We use one centralized platform where you can log into your classroom. There you can get assignments, interact with faculty and peers, reply to message boards, and more.
Your 15-Week Class Schedule
Your Class Director is going to check your study logs at the end of every week and will only release the following week’s materials to you if you have been regularly logging in and completed the previous week’s activities.
And he or she will proactively follow up with you to keep you on track.
Module 1 – Manufacturing Safe Medicines (Weeks 1-5)
Module 2 – Pharmaceutical Facility Design (Weeks 6-15)
Options For Further Study
Take our 10-Week Starter Validation Training Program to learn to validate those purified air, water and steam systems and stand from the crowd
In this module, you will develop your own 100-page plus IQ OQ PQ Validation Protocol to commission and qualify a clean-in-place system along with:
- How the intent of a process (like maintaining the product at the required temperature) is linked to the equipment that will be used to do this (heat exchanger, temperature transmitters, flow valve).
- You’ll be able to develop your own functional test scripts based on the User Requirement Specifications to confirm that the installed equipment is fit-for-purpose, i.e. that it will do what it states that it will do.
- Use a traceability matrix tool to ensure that all requirements defined within the User Requirement Specifications (URS) are tested in the test protocols
- How to prioritise which parts of the equipment system are critical to validate and which parts are not etc, using component impact assessments and risk management tools.
- How to read/interpret the engineering documentation ( P&IDs, Piping Isometrics & Electrical Loop Drawings) used to define the equipment system (drawings, specifications etc).
- How to qualify equipment, instruments and piping systems, along with automation controls and building facilities.
- How to document all of these steps in an IQ OQ PQ validation protocol which you will develop as your end of module assignment.
- Be able to join a Validation Team Get the working knowledge of a Validation Team member, allowing you to take the first steps in your high-paying career.
And while we use a Clean-in-Place equipment system in the course notes and videos to explain all of these elements about validation, what you will learn on this course is transferrable to other process engineering systems.
Show Off Your New Skills: Get a Certificate of Completion
Once the course is over, complete a written assignment to get certified in The Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technologies
Add it to your resume or your LinkedIn profile.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, this program is delivered fully online so you can learn from home (or anywhere). Study after the kids have gone to bed.
There are a total of 15 sessions of online content, one per week. Each session of online content typically includes 6-10 topics.
Each topic includes:
- A set of course notes – these provide additional depth to the video content.
- Warm-up self-assessment question – to recap or activate any relevant prior learning.
- A video – these are typically 5-10 minutes long and deliver 80% of the course content.
- Post video self-assessment questions to check how well you can recall this new material from memory.
- Any follow up assessments or assignments.
We release only one week’s worth of material at a time and then c