Core Competencies Taught in the QA Certificate Program
This page is divided into the 1) The Competencies and 2) The Technical Skills that Industry has identified as required by the Life Science Industries of New Jersey.
- Framework of Competencies for the Advanced Manufacturing Industry (Developed by the US Department of Labor
1. WORKPLACE SKILLS
- Dependability/Reliability
- Consistency
- Oral Communication
- Team Work
- Preciseness
- Problem Solving
- Ability to deal with criticism and adverse events
- Organizational skills
- How to get a job in this industry
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WORKPLACE COMPETENCIES
- Business Fundamentals
- Teamwork
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Marketing and Customer Focus
- Planning and Organizing
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Applied Technology
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ACADEMIC COMPETENCIES
- Applied Science
- Basic Computer Skills
- Applied Mathematics/Measurement
- Reading for Information
- Technical Writing
- Listening and Following Directions
- Location & Using Information
- Speaking /Presentation Skills
- INDUSTRY- WIDE TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
II. Life Science Technical Skills taught in the BCC QA Program.
The program will train you in the following techiques, practices and instrumentation.
- Aseptic Technique
- Corrective and Preventive Action
- Documentation
- Document Storage
- Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
- GMPs and GLPs
- Office Equipment Operation
- Materials Handling
- Material Safety Data Sheets Preparation and Maintenance
- Technical Reading and Writing
- Time Management
- Autoclave
- Balance
- Buffer preparation and QC
- Centrifuge operation and maintenance
- Chart Recorders
- Chemical Glassware
- Concentrators
- Conductivity Meter
- Culture of Microbes
- Densitometer
- DNA purification and analysis
- Dialysis
- ELISA Testing
- Filtration Devices
- Fume Hood
- Gas Chromatography
- Gel Dry System
- Turbidity Meter
- Heat Block
- Hot Stir Plate
- High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
- IsoElectrical Focusing
- Immunodiffusion
- Incubator
- Instrumentation Validation methods
- Ion Chromatography
- Labeling regulations
- Mass Spectrometry
- Microbial Challenge
- Packaging regulations
- Ph Meter
- Pipettes
- Plate Reader
- Plate Shaker
- Plate Washer
- Printers
- Protein Purification Fraction Collector
- Refrigerator/Freezer
- Safety Equipment
- SDS-Page (Poured and PreCast)
- Shaker/Incubator
- Shipping regulations
- Solution Preparation
- SOP adherence
- Spectrophotometers
- Stability testing
- Sterile Packaging
- Sterilizing Grade Filters
- Sterile Techniques
- Stir Plates
- Temperature Monitors
- Test Tube Racks
- Vacuum Pumps
- Volumetric Pipettes and Flasks
- Vortex
- Water Bath
- Water Purification Systems and their maintenance
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- BCC QA Program teaches over 90% of the skill standards as defined in The Biomanufacturing Skill Standards*
* http://cse.edc.org/products/biomfgskills/charts.asp - Copyright ©2005 Education Development Center, Inc., and New Hampshire Community Technical College
Bergen Community College Quality Assurance Program
Pitkin Education Center - Room S-321
Phone (201) 493-7521 E-Mail: jfitzpatrick@bergen.edu
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