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This role improves equipment safety, compliance, availability, and lifecycle performance by combining hands-on troubleshooting with effective maintenance strategies, equipment changes, technical documentation, and cross-functional leadership.\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 lives.\nMain Responsibilities\nOwn equipment performance and lifecycle: Maintain asset health, design basis, operating limits, criticality, failure history, documentation, maintenance strategy, obsolescence risks, and improvement priorities. \nLead troubleshooting and field support: Diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues. Partner directly with mechanics and technicians through repair, testing, and return to service. \nBuild executable maintenance plans: Develop and technically approve complete work packages, including scope, sequence, labor, parts, tools, permits, LOTO, acceptance criteria, post-maintenance testing, and restoration requirements. \nOptimize preventive maintenance and spares: Create risk-based PM strategies, equipment BOMs, critical-spares lists, stocking recommendations, and obsolescence mitigation plans using equipment criticality, failure modes, OEM guidance, and operating history. \nLead equipment changes and projects: Define technical requirements and lead design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, maintenance readiness, and documentation for modifications and new equipment. \nOwn technical quality actions: Lead equipment-specific change controls and CAPAs, provide timely deviation assessments, and ensure approved hardware changes are implemented, tested, documented, and effectively closed. \nDrive reliability improvement: Use downtime, repeat work, deviations, maintenance findings, and condition data to eliminate bad actors and improve reliability, maintainability, safety, and compliance. \nCoordinate vendors and stakeholders: Develop technical scopes, assess vendor capability and performance, and collaborate with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, and Finance. \nKey Deliverables\nTechnically complete, schedule-ready work packages and maintenance master data. \nRisk-based PM programs, accurate equipment BOMs, and critical-spares strategies. \nTimely, technically sound closure of deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and engineering actions. \nReduced repeat failures, emergency work, avoidable downtime, and obsolete-component exposure. \nComplete maintenance readiness and technical turnover for equipment changes and new assets. \nAccurate, traceable, and inspection-ready drawings, specifications, manuals, and records. \nAbout You\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering discipline.\nAt least 3 years of engineering experience supporting manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment. \nDemonstrated equipment troubleshooting capability using drawings, manuals, data, failure history, and structured root-cause methods. \nExperience developing job plans, PM tasks, technical specifications, spare-parts recommendations, or maintenance strategies. \nExperience supporting equipment modifications, commissioning, qualification, change control, deviations, or CAPAs. \nAbility to work effectively in the field and communicate technical risk and recommendations to technical teams and leaders. \nPreferred\nExperience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, SUT, or other cGMP manufacturing. \nWorking knowledge of CMMS/EAM systems, equipment BOMs, work-order controls, and maintenance master data. \nKnowledge of reliability methods, including criticality, FMEA, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, bad-actor elimination, and lifecycle planning. \nExperience with P&IDs, electrical and mechanical drawings, instrumentation, controls interfaces, and OEM technical packages. \nPE, CMRP/CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management training, or related professional certification.\nWhy choose us?\n Bring 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 - at speed and scale\nTransform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.\nSanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.\n#GD-SG \n#LI-GZ\nPursue progress, discover extraordinary\nBetter is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.\nSanofi US endeavours to make our career center accessible to any and all users. If you are experiencing difficulty and need assistance applying online, please call 1-866-SANOFI2 (1-866-726-6342) or click here\nUS and Puerto Rico Residents Only\nSanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.\nNorth America Applicants Only\nThe salary range for this position is:\n$100.500,00 - $145.166,66All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. 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