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The Reliability Engineer leads reliability investigations, preventive and predictive maintenance optimization, CAPAs, change controls, lifecycle planning, and reliability-centered improvements to single-use technology systems.\nDepartment Description\nThe Site Maintenance & Reliability organization provides corrective and preventive maintenance, reliability engineering, calibration support, and technical services for site buildings, equipment, utilities, and manufacturing systems.\nThe organization is responsible for the reliable, efficient, and sustained operation of site assets while supporting manufacturing, project delivery, business objectives, and compliance with regulatory, quality, environmental, health, and safety requirements.\nJoin a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers - seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you'll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster.\nAbout Sanofi:\nWe're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system - and innovative pipeline - enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.\nMain Responsibilities :\nKey Responsibilities\nAsset Performance and Risk Management\nAnalyze CMMS/EAM data, downtime, deviations, work orders, maintenance costs, condition-monitoring results, spare-parts usage, and equipment history.\nDevelop reliability dashboards, bad-actor lists, Pareto analyses, repeat-failure trends, and MTBF/MTTR reporting.\nAssess equipment criticality and risk using FMEA/FMECA, reliability-centered maintenance, safety, compliance, product impact, redundancy, obsolescence, and business-continuity considerations.\nRecommend risk mitigation, monitoring, acceptance, escalation, or asset replacement strategies.\nFailure Investigation and Problem Solving\nLead root-cause investigations for recurring, complex, high-impact, or poorly understood equipment failures.\nEvaluate failed components, alarms, operating conditions, maintenance history, design information, and human factors.\nInvestigate emerging reliability concerns, including degrading performance, repeat work orders, nuisance alarms, abnormal condition-monitoring results, and increasing parts consumption.\nDevelop sustainable corrective actions and verify their effectiveness.\nMaintenance Strategy Optimization\nDevelop and optimize preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies.\nSelect appropriate monitoring technologies based on equipment criticality, failure modes, technical feasibility, data quality, and cost.\nDefine monitoring routes, frequencies, alarm limits, response workflows, training needs, and program performance measures.\nUse risk, failure history, condition data, and field feedback to add, revise, consolidate, convert, or retire maintenance tasks through approved governance processes.\nWork-Order and Inventory Analysis\nReview corrective, preventive, predictive, and emergency work orders to identify repeat failures, maintenance-induced events, planning gaps, parts usage, and opportunities to improve job plans.\nMonitor critical spares, long-lead components, repairable assets, shelf-life exposure, obsolete inventory, and stockout risk.\nRecommend stocking levels and inventory strategies based on asset criticality, consumption, lead time, redundancy, and supplier availability.\nReliability Improvement and Lifecycle Planning\nLead bad-actor elimination, equipment upgrades, system modifications, and replacement recommendations.\nDevelop technical scopes, lifecycle cost evaluations, business cases, implementation plans, and effectiveness measures.\nLead reliability-related CAPAs and change requests for systemic or longer-term improvements.\nSupport the development and execution of reliability-related capital projects and system modifications.\nSingle-Use Technology\nLead reliability-centered improvements to single-use technology assemblies and systems.\nEvaluate failure modes, component selection, connection interfaces, operating limits, installation practices, leak risk, supplier performance, usability, standardization, and maintainability.\nCoordinate approved changes with Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Quality, Validation, Procurement, and suppliers.\nEngineering and Project Support\nProvide reliability requirements for new equipment, system modifications, capital projects, commissioning, qualification, and operational readiness.\nDefine equipment criticality, maintenance strategies, predictive-monitoring requirements, spare-parts needs, acceptance criteria, documentation, and training requirements.\nParticipate in design reviews to confirm reliability, maintainability, accessibility, redundancy, control strategy, safe-work, and lifecycle requirements.\nTechnical Leadership and Compliance\nDevelop and maintain reliability standards, tools, templates, and analytical methods.\nCoach engineers, planners, mechanics, technicians, and system owners in reliability principles, investigation methods, and data-driven decision-making.\nMaintain accurate, traceable, current, and inspection-ready technical documentation.\nPerform work in accordance with cGMP, data-integrity requirements, Quality Systems, site procedures, HSE requirements, OSHA expectations, engineering standards, and approved change-control processes.\nSupport planned shutdowns, utility outages, start-ups, system restoration, emergency conditions, and manufacturing escalations.\nDecision Rights and Accountability\nThe Reliability Engineer:\nSelects appropriate reliability methods, data sources, analytical tools, and assumptions.\nDetermines engineering risk ratings and recommends mitigation, monitoring, acceptance, or escalation through the applicable governance process.\nDefines the technical basis for predictive-maintenance technologies, monitoring routes, alarm limits, frequencies, and response strategies.\nRecommends evidence-based changes to preventive and predictive maintenance programs.\nPrioritizes bad actors and systemic reliability improvements based on safety, compliance, frequency, cost, and business impact.\nIs accountable for the quality and timely completion of assigned analyses, investigations, CAPAs, change requests, work-order reviews, inventory-risk assessments, and technical documentation.\nEscalates significant risks, repeat failures, overdue actions, and material cost, compliance, schedule, or manufacturing exposure.\nKey Deliverables and Performance Measures\nCurrent asset-criticality and reliability-risk assessments with documented mitigation priorities.\nRoutine reporting of bad actors, recurring failures, downtime drivers, and lifecycle cost opportunities.\nTimely root-cause investigations with sustainable corrective actions and demonstrated effectiveness.\nEffective predictive-maintenance programs with actionable alerts, route compliance, avoided failures, and measurable value.\nReduced emergency work, repeat failures, and maintenance-related downtime.\nImproved preventive-maintenance effectiveness, job-plan quality, and labor utilization.\nTimely completion of reliability CAPAs, change requests, and work-order analysis actions.\nReduced critical-spare stockout, excess-inventory, and obsolescence risk.\nApproved single-use technology improvements that reduce failure risk and improve standardization, usability, and maintainability.\nAbout You :\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering discipline, with at least 3 years of relevant engineering experience in manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment. Candidates without a bachelor's degree must have at least 8 years of such experience.\nApplied experience with reliability methods such as FMEA/FMECA, RCM, asset criticality, MTBF/MTTR, lifecycle costing, Pareto analysis, root-cause failure analysis, and maintenance-strategy optimization.\nExperience working in a regulated environment, including cGMP and applicable OSHA and environmental requirements.\nExperience analyzing CMMS/EAM, work-order, downtime, deviation, condition-monitoring, or inventory data.\nExperience leading equipment investigations, continuous-improvement initiatives, CAPAs, or change controls.\nWorking knowledge of BMS, EMS, DCS, CMMS/EAM, data-visualization tools, and Microsoft Office applications.\nStrong technical writing, communication, facilitation, coaching, and cross-functional leadership skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing.\nKnowledge of manufacturing equipment, utility systems, process equipment, and single-use technologies.\nExperience implementing predictive-maintenance or condition-monitoring programs.\nExperience with commissioning, qualification, validation, and equipment lifecycle management.\nFamiliarity with SAP, Maximo, Infor EAM, or comparable CMMS/EAM platforms.\nExperience with Lean, Six Sigma, statistical analysis, continuous improvement, or data visualization.\nCMRP, CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management, Professional Engineer, or equivalent professional certification.\nKey Working Relationships\nSite Maintenance & Reliability: Priorities, governance, resources, escalation, and performance commitments.\nEquipment Engineering and Maintenance: Technical ownership, failure findings, job plans, preventive-maintenance content, modifications, and execution.\nManufacturing and System Owners: Operating context, equipment impact, access, performance trends, risk controls, and implementation.\nQuality, Validation, and Metrology: Deviations, CAPAs, change controls, impact assessments, qualification, calibration, and validated-state requirements.\nHSE and Automation: Safe operation, risk controls, alarms, control-system interfaces, data sources, and monitoring solutions.\nProcurement, Stores, and Suppliers: Inventory risk, repair strategies, obsolescence, supplier capability, lead times, and lifecycle support.\nWorking Conditions\nAbility to gown and access manufacturing areas.\nAbility to enter operating and maintenance areas to support troubleshooting, equipment inspections, and vendor activities.\nParticipation in planned site shutdowns, utility outages, system start-ups, and restoration activities.\nOn-call support may be required in accordance with sit\nWhy Choose Us?\nBring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.\nDiscover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.\nEnjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.\nTake good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.\nShape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply.\nPower industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation - 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