Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream

Sanofi

Framingham, MA

Pay: $100,500-$145,167/yr

**Job Title**: Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream

• Location: Framingham, MA

**About the Job**

The Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream is the technical owner for an assigned portfolio of manufacturing, utility, facility, or laboratory equipment. 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.

Join 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.

**About Sanofi:**

We’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.

**Main Responsibilities**

• **Own equipment performance and lifecycle:** Maintain asset health, design basis, operating limits, criticality, failure history, documentation, maintenance strategy, obsolescence risks, and improvement priorities.
• **Lead 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.
• **Build 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.
• **Optimize 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.
• **Lead 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.
• **Own 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.
• **Drive reliability improvement:** Use downtime, repeat work, deviations, maintenance findings, and condition data to eliminate bad actors and improve reliability, maintainability, safety, and compliance.
• **Coordinate 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.

**Key Deliverables**

• Technically complete, schedule-ready work packages and maintenance master data.
• Risk-based PM programs, accurate equipment BOMs, and critical-spares strategies.
• Timely, technically sound closure of deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and engineering actions.
• Reduced repeat failures, emergency work, avoidable downtime, and obsolete-component exposure.
• Complete maintenance readiness and technical turnover for equipment changes and new assets.
• Accurate, traceable, and inspection-ready drawings, specifications, manuals, and records.

**About You**

**Basic Qualifications**

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering discipline.
• At least 3 years of engineering experience supporting manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
• Demonstrated equipment troubleshooting capability using drawings, manuals, data, failure history, and structured root-cause methods.
• Experience developing job plans, PM tasks, technical specifications, spare-parts recommendations, or maintenance strategies.
• Experience supporting equipment modifications, commissioning, qualification, change control, deviations, or CAPAs.
• Ability to work effectively in the field and communicate technical risk and recommendations to technical teams and leaders.

**Preferred**

• Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, SUT, or other cGMP manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of CMMS/EAM systems, equipment BOMs, work-order controls, and maintenance master data.
• Knowledge of reliability methods, including criticality, FMEA, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, bad-actor elimination, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience with P&IDs, electrical and mechanical drawings, instrumentation, controls interfaces, and OEM technical packages.
• PE, CMRP/CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management training, or related pr