Minimum Entry Requirements
This program is university accreditated by TU Dublin, Ireland so you need one of the following to meet its entry requirements:
- You have a minimum of 1-year’s work experience in a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) manufacturing environment e.g:
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Medical device manufacturing
- Nutritional, beverage, food or dairy manufacturing
- Or
- You have a relevant engineering or laboratory science degree.
Or - You have successfully completed our Conversion Course into Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
If you don’t meet TU Dublin’s entry requirements, first take our Conversion Course into Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Programme.
Why choose the Certificate in BioPharmaChem?
We can guarantee you’ve never seen a programme like this before.
It’s a unique combination of:
You’ll find full course details further down this page)
Study at a time and place that suits you
All materials are delivered asynchronously online, meaning that you never have to be available at a certain time or place to study. There are no zoom classes and no long commutes to a classroom.
Whatever your current schedule – work, children, travel, caring responsibilities, shifts, volunteering, and even total unpredictability – as long as you can find approximately 12 hours per week, you can absolutely fit this programme in.
Study at your own pace
Your individual materials will be released by your dedicated Course Coordinator who’ll keep a weekly check on your progress. So you’ll never feel like you’re rushing to keep up with others and you’ll never be in a position where you feel overwhelmed by what’s waiting for you when you log in. Similarly, when you’ve got some extra time in your schedule you can move ahead more quickly by requesting additional materials.
You will always be working at a pace that is comfortable for you.
Get started now
There’s no need to wait until the next academic year, we have multiple course start dates throughout the year to fit in with the schedules of the professionals we’re working with.
Why choose GetReskilled?
We can also guarantee you’ve never worked with a team like this before.
We’re a specialist company that works exclusively in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector. So when you’re looking for a course to supplement your industry experience, our team are the specialists you need, every step of the way.
Have your own “Personal Trainer”
You’ll be allocated a Course Coordinator who’ll work with you from day one until you successfully complete the programme. They’ll check in on your progress every week and will reach out if it looks like you’re losing momentum. They’ll be your single point of contact so you’ll never have to wonder where to go with a query. And they’ll be your biggest supporter – our course coordinators pride themselves on knowing their students by name and do anything they can to help them succeed.
Award Winning Programmes
We’ve won pharma industry awards… we’ve won education sector awards… we even placed 2nd in a Europe-wide vocational training award. Our team has published research and presented at international conferences.
All this is to say, the small size of our team hasn’t stopped us from making an impact. So you get the best of both worlds – the opportunity to study award-winning pharma industry content that is university accredited, from a small dedicated team who’ll be as invested in your success as you are.
What new roles could I retrain for?
STEP 1: Take this Level 7 “Unversity Certificate in BioPharmaChem Manufacturing” program. We have listed typical roles we see advertised on our jobs board:
If you just started in an entry-level role (process operator, cleanroom operator) you could retrain for:
- Process Technician
- Chemical Process Technician
- BioProcess Technician
- BioProcess Associate
- Manufacturing Biotech Associate
And with more experience
- Senior Process Technician
- Production Supervisor
If you have a few years work experience and want to move away from manufacturing roles:
- Quality Assurance Specialist – Some companies call this role:
- Quality Assurance Associate
- Quality Assurance (QA) Technician
- QMS/QA Specialist
- Quality Systems Coordinator
- Documentation Specialist – Some companies call this role:
- Document Controller
- Documentation Coordinator
- 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 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
Study all the way to a degree
Once you have completed the University Certificate in BioPharmaChem Manufacturing, take the next steps to build your qualification all the way to a degree.
STEP 2: Then you can take this “Certificate in Validation” program to move into more senior validation roles with a higher salary. Typical roles
- Senior Validation Technician
- CQV Technician
And with more work experience
- Validation Engineer
- Process Validation Engineer
- Cleaning Validation Engineer
STEP 3: If you have completed our University Certificate in eBioPharmaChem Manufacturing and Certificate in Validation which are standalone programs, you are already halfway to a level 7 Degree. Take 6 more modules to get a BSc degree in Degree in Manufacture of Medicinal Products (DT 291)
Your 37-week class schedule
The core content of these modules was developed in consultation with the pharma industry including Pfizer and MSD.
Module 1 – Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technologies
This module will give you a broad understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, the rules that govern manufacturing and the guidelines on how these rules are applied along with the risk management tools to be used when making decisions that could impact the safety of the medicines being manufactured.