MES Developer

Context  

Sanofi's strategic direction is to standardize processes across sites, embrace digital transformation of its Manufacturing & Supply perimeter, simplify its current solution landscape, and leverage advanced technologies to bring business value.

The MARS (MES Accelerated Roadmap @ Sanofi) program aims to implement Computer-assisted batch review, enabled by the definition and roll-out of a core Manufacturing Execution System (MES). This program will transform Sanofi plants, improving compliance, cost, and cycle time performance.

Over recent years, Sanofi has deployed various Production sites across GBUs (multiple pharmaceutical processes, Weighing & Dispensing & full MES), with a second wave currently in motion. This represents a strategic opportunity for Manufacturing & Supply Transformation to:

• Design standardized end-to-end processes to generate business value and deliver best-in-class solutions to industrial sites, with high focus on electronic batch record management & review by exception process

• Deliver innovative "state of the art" tools enabling performance for manufacturing processes

• Allow new generation of deployment – more Agile & business centric

• Maintain robust and highly available solutions to operate industrial processes efficiently

About the job 

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Developer drives all activities required to ensure a high level of performance for MES systems, bringing perfect answers from the MES services to Business requirements. 

The transversal position allows you to play a key role from the design, build & tests of the Core model to the support & lifecycle operations with a functional & technical perspective. Best in Class & innovating Architecture MES will be the target of the Digital MES Developer. 

You will work in close collaboration with all MES Digital Product Owner, MES DevOps Engineer, MES Configuration Experts, MBR Developers, MES Product lines and local digital team, counterparts in Infrastructure (architecture, project & support teams), Cybersecurity domains, external vendors. You remain up to date on company’s standards, Digital / IT industry practices and emerging technologies and contributes to Digital maintenance processes & tools. 

• Main MES Systems:

• Siemens MES Opcenter Execution Pharma Product and Siemens Equipment logbook Pharma

• Korber Werum Pas-X Product and Opstrakker (elogbook/ eforms)

• Main platform :

• Mendix

• Business Processes covered in scope : 

• Master data management (items, users rights, equipments, locations, Workorder…) 

• Master batch record edition & approval (including workflows) 

• Master batch record review & approval (by Exception) 

• Templates for elogbook

• Operating text instructions 

• Production execution 

• Weighing & Dispensing 

• Communication to equipements or scada systems 

• Equipment management 

• Material flow management 

• Traceability / Genealogy 

• Labelling 

• Reporting  

• Articulation with ERP, quality, logistic & shopfloor systems (LIMS, Documentation, Deviation management, Serialisation, OEE,…) 

• Main responsibilities: 

• Technical Expertise, Delivery, and Quality-Performance of services:  

• Support Site on application, system, or process issue for MES and eco systems (system setup, installations, configurations, interfaces, eMBRs, Master Datas…) 

• Design, document, develop & test advanced technical solutions (scripts, add-ins, advanced monitoring, reports, global configurations, …) using standard features of the product 

• Participate to any innovative solution allowing acceleration of deployments or industrialization of system installation & management (updates/upgrades, …)  

• Lead preparation & build of delivery packages for sites. Be the referent for installation & configuration of MES Systems. Work closely with MES Application Experts for Core model environment & Project leaders from platforms / clusters for system deployments. 

• Ensure that standards, rules & tools for Platform Mgt (Release mgt, Solution Documentation, Testing) are correctly setup, understood and applied  

• Contribute to the definition of indicators for performance, quality of service, business satisfaction. Put in place the technical capability allowing to build automatically these indicators 

• Manage preventive / corrective maintenance for components   

• Ensure that standards and recommendations for Quality, Security and Accessibility of Digital are correctly understood and integrated in the Core model architecture design. 

• Support Sanofi internal audit & external inspection 

• Contribute to support operations, contribute to investigation, always in alignment with standard processes 

• People skills: 

• Facilitate the transfer of know-how, experience and best practices 

• Contribute to Digital skills development within your domain  

• About you  

• Experience & Knowledge:

• 8+ years of experience in Digital Manufacturing domain with:

• 5+ years of experience on Manufacturing Execution System (MES) within the pharmaceutical industry, with a strong interest in upskilling on emerging technologies and enhancing MES development and technical capabilities and industrialization or

• 5+ years of experience with development technologies, driving automation, scalability, system reliability/Industrialization, with a strong interest in upskilling in the functional MES domain

• Demonstrated experience in a multicultural/multilanguage environment and in a matrixed organization. 

• Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes in industrial plants within pharmaceutical context (GXP regulations)

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• Technical Skills:  

• Manufacturing Execution System Business Processes including Master Batch Record and Review by Exception

• Relevant MES solutions/modules/functionalities 

• Strong Knowledge of Siemens OPCenter Pharma Execution  and/ or Koerber Werum PAS-X Product 

• Strong Knowledge of Digital technologies as AWS or AZURE cloud, containers, micro services, dev-ops, Kubernetes…

• Strong Expertise of Infrastructure technologies & services as network, Windows System administration, Databases Oracle & PostGre SQL  

• Strong Expertise in development languages : Powershell, VB, VBScript, Java, .NET, C# 

• Strong Expertise in low code / no code solution : Mendix

• Strong Expertise in Reporting tools : PowerBI, Crystal Reports

• Knowledge of Pharma industry regulatory best practices applied to Digital development

• Soft skills:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills/ strong team dynamic

• Ability and willingness to take ownership and accountability / Take the Lead

• Customer Driven

• Mindset and application of Agile in day-to-day work

• Ability to challenge and propose solutions

• Open minded and active listening

• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field

• Languages: English, any other languages are a plus

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary 

Better 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.  

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.  

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!