Engineering Background

Potential Job Roles and Salaries

What kind of roles would I be suitable for based on my engineering background?

If your current or previous job was in engineering, you could retrain to perform the SAME OR SIMILAR job within the high-paying pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing industry.

Here are some of the typical roles and the expected salaries:

Process Engineer

Responsible for designing, implementing, controlling and optimizing industrial processes, especially continuous ones within the chemical, petrochemical, agriculture, mineral processing, advanced material, food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological industries.

  • Starting Salary: €45,000 to €55,000
  • After 3 Years: €55,000 to €65,000
  • After 5 Years: €65,000 to €75,000+
  • Starting Salary: $77,824
  • After 2 Years: $97,530
  • After 5 Years: $116,236

Manufacturing Engineer

Responsible for development, design, implementation and monitoring of equipment, tools and machinery used in the manufacturing process. Their primary goal is to create the stages of a manufacturing system that ultimately produces a product in the most time-efficient and cost-effective way possible, while always maintaining staff safety and product quality.

  • Starting Salary: €38,000 to €50,000
  • After 3 Years: €50,000 to €60,000
  • After 5 Years: €60,000 to €70,000
  • Starting Salary: $77,824
  • After 2 Years: $98,030
  • After 5 Years: $117,236

Project Engineer

Manages technical or engineering projects. They work with stakeholders at all levels, with direct responsibility for budgeting, personnel and project planning.

  • Starting Salary: €40,000+
  • After 3 Years: €45,000 to €55,000
  • After 5 Years: €55,000 to €75,000
  • Starting Salary: $83,400
  • After 2 Years: $104,250
  • After 5 Years: $123,100

Instrumentation Engineer

Provision of computer programming and instrumentation support as well as designing and developing specialised instrumentation and equipment as required.

  • Starting Salary: €40,000 to €45,000
  • After 3 Years: €45,000 to €60,000
  • After 5 Years: €60,000 to €70,000
  • Starting Salary: $76,840
  • After 2 Years: $95,800
  • After 5 Years: $114,760

Quality Engineer

Works within the quality team to ensure the overall quality of a manufactured product and are tasked with creating documentation, devising quality tests and defining the criteria a test result should meet. They play a key role in fixing issues when they arise.

Some companies might call this role:

  • QA Engineer
  • QC Engineer
  • Starting Salary: $75,800
  • After 2 Years: $94,850
  • After 5 Years: $113,700

Some companies might call this role:

  • QA Engineer
  • QC Engineer
  • Starting Salary: €40,000 to €45,000
  • After 3 Years: €45,000 to €60,000
  • After 5 Years: €60,000 to €75,000

References

Salaries are calculated as 80%, 100% and 120% of BLS averages.

What Courses Do I Need to Take?

If your CURRENT or PREVIOUS job is in engineering;

STEP 1: You will first need to take our Conversion Course into Engineering Roles in Pharma to perform the SAME OR SIMILAR job within the pharma industry.

Engineering Job Descriptions & Salaries