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Navigating Engineering & Consulting in Pharmaceutical Industry

Learn about career paths, salary factors, and choosing between engineering disciplines and site work in the pharmaceutical sector. Presented by Alan Levy, Project Manager at Javan & Walter, Inc.

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Navigating Engineering & Consulting in Pharmaceutical Industry

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  1. Making your way in the Engineering/Consulting side of the Pharmaceutical Industry Presented by: Alan Levy, Project Manager, Javan & Walter, Inc.

  2. Keep your career goals in mind • After college, money is scarce • This greatly influences decisions, and long term goals don’t seem important. Don’t fall into this trap! • Many paths to choose from… • Experience is great, but it can also make it difficult or impossible to change career paths after several years on one path. • Money isn’t everything! • Regardless of salary, if you don’t like what you are doing or you don’t see a future in it, you should move on before inadvertently locking yourself into a career path you don’t want.

  3. Is an engineering firm right for you? • Operating Company • Pros: > Initial Salary, < Volatility • Cons: < Visibility, < Client Interaction < Direct Recognition, Fixed Salary Escalation • Engineering/Consulting Firm • Pros: > Visibility, > Client Interaction, > Mobility, > Direct Recognition, Dynamic Salary Escalation • Cons: < Initial Salary, > Volatility

  4. Engineering Disciplines vs. Site Work • This is an important choice! It can set your entire career path. Make this choice or it will be made for you. • Engineering Disciplines: • You can become an authority in your field. Clients appreciate your work, but you usually won’t develop personal relationships. • People value your engineering opinion, because your specialization makes you a technical expert. However, specialization reduces your breadth of knowledge in other aspects of engineering and the industry. • This career path most easily leads into becoming a Chief/Lead Engineer or an Individual Consultant. • Site Work: • You can become a generalist with wide knowledge of the industry. You may focus in certain areas, but you will not be a disciplinary expert. • You may become a technical expert in non-discipline fields like construction, maintenance, operations, quality/compliance, etc. • You will gain lots of industry contacts, client relations skills, valuable insight into how the drug companies operate, and time, project, and people management skills. • Clients appreciate your work, and you will develop personal relationships. • This career path most easily leads into Construction Management and/or Project Management.

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