Biotech companies range in sized from startups that employ a few individuals to large multinational organizations that employ tens of thousands to over 100 thousand individuals. Similarly, companies can have a singularly focused business activity to several divisions with each one focused on one or more business areas. Job areas follow a similar pattern. Some kinds of jobs are specialized for a particular business area and other jobs, such as those related to documentation or quality control broadly support many business areas. This page shows how different terms that describe business areas, job areas and careers could interrelate. The word clouds use size and color to indicate how often a particular term is used. Working definitions are as follows:
- Business Area = The kind of work, or area of investigation performed a company
- Job Area = The kind of work that is performed to support a business area
- Entry Jobs = How a career can be developed for different jobs and business areas
Business Areas
Entry-level Jobs
- Agricultural and Food Science Technician
- Animal Technician
- Biofuel Technician
- Biomanufacturing Technician - Downstream
- Biomanufacturing Technician - Upstream
- Cell Culture Technician
- Chemistry Quality Control Technician
- Clinical Research Associate
- Compliance Specialist
- Environmental Health & Safety Technician
- Environmental Science and Protection Technician
- Facilities Technician
- Food Sample Inspector
- Genomics technician
- Glass washer
- Greenhouse or Field Technician
- Instrumentation / Calibration Technician
- Laboratory Assistant
- Laboratory Safety Associate
- Laboratory Technician
- Manufacturing Assistant
- Microbiology Quality Control (QC) Technician
- Molecular Biology Technician
- Plant Tissue Culture Technician
- Process Development Associate
- Product Development Technician
- Purification Technician
- QA Documentation Coordinator
- Quality Assurance Specialist
- Quality Control (QC) Technician
- Technical Services Representative
- Validation Specialist
- Water Quality Technician