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Job Title: Automation Engineer - MSAT Pilot Lab Technical System Owner

Location: Framingham, MA

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. 

Department Description:

The MA Bio-Campus is home to Sanofi’s digital facility which won ISPE’s Facility of the Future and Facility of the Year 2020. As such, the Manufacturing Systems & Automation group in is responsible for executing Sanofi’s Digital Strategy to deliver innovative solutions. Focused on Digital 4.0, this group is involved in delivering digital solutions for large capital projects as well as continuous improvement and optimizing existing solutions. The group is responsible for design, implementation, support, and maintenance of digital systems aligned with site and company goals. The group is responsible for maintaining stable, qualified, and highly available computing infrastructure and digital software applications. This encompasses work processes that originate with the identification of a new or revised digital systems, the design, installation, verification and validation of the system, the maintenance of the system in its commissioned/qualified/validated state and the retirement of the system at the end of its life.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for providing automation expertise and technical system ownership for all operational technology in use at the Manufacturing Science & Analytical Technology (MSAT) Pilot Lab located at the MA BioCampus. The role is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, life cycle management and leading projects related to operational technology systems in the Pilot Lab area, which include DeltaV, Aveva PI and Unicorn systems.

Projects include continuous improvement, expansion and system upgrades to optimize and support MSAT activities. This person will design, architect, troubleshoot, and deliver future enhancements for automation related systems.

The Automation Engineer will be responsible for using expertise to design innovative solutions. These solutions span the areas of automation systems, data historians, IoT devices, etc. with a key focus on pushing new boundaries of Digital 4.0. The person will be responsible for maintaining and providing technical support, ensuring availability of the automation systems for the MSAT Pilot lab.

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Leadership:

• • Providing leadership and direction to junior team members while embodying the principles of the Sanofi Global Leadership Model

  • Leading automation related projects

  • Managing contractors for staff augmentation or project roles

  • Ensuring timely issue escalation to senior management and cross-functional support teams

  • Partnering with support teams i.e., Manufacturing Automation, Digital, etc to ensure deliverables are completed to meet to MSAT schedules.

  • Mentoring junior automation engineers to ensure that the team applies compliant, efficient solutions to projects

•  Automation:

• • Provide technical solutions to a wide range of process automation related design challenges. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives

  • Responsible for ensuring process equipment automation are available to support operations schedule requirements

  • Managing medium to large departmental projects and ensuring that the appropriate controls, approvals, and validation requirements are implemented

  • Integrate systems and data from a variety of skidded systems, analytical equipment, and process systems

  • Developing robust solutions that have minimal downtime and ensure data integrity

  • Lead development of automation standards within MSAT

• Training /Deviations /Compliance/Safety:

• • Complying with Sanofi requirements for training

  • Ensuring that Automation documentation is compliant and inspection ready

  • Complying with requirements from Sanofi’s Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements

• Continuous Improvement:

• • Working collaboratively with inter-department and cross-functional teams to lead necessary changes in a timely and productive manner

  • Partnering with MSAT to troubleshoot and drive resolution of process issues and proactively driving projects to improve manufacturing process

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or related technological field and 7+ years of experience or Master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience

• 5+ years of hands-on programming experience with DeltaV

• 3+ years of hands-on technical experience with troubleshooting and root cause analysis for manufacturing control systems

• 3+ years of hands-on technical experience with providing support for automated manufacturing operations

• Demonstrated knowledge of bus technologies and Instrumentation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s and 12+ years of experience

• Master’s and 10+ years of experience

• 5+ years of hands-on programming experience with real-time manufacturing automation and control systems (such as PLCs, SCADA, PI, SynTQ, RAMAN etc.)

• Experience with systems/network/validation, preferable in the chemical, pharmaceutical, foods, or other process industries is preferred

• Electrical, Electronic Engineer or Chemical Engineer

• Experienced in establishment of safe practices in a lab environment.

• Proficient working with computer programs/applications such as Windows, VBA, MS Office applications, etc.

• Strong organizational skills

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and be accountable

• Proven technical and analytical skills to quickly resolve automation system issues

• Experience delivering solutions based on Digital 4.0

• Experience with IoT solution and edge devices

Special Working Conditions:

• Required “on call” support  on a 24/7 basis  while the Pilot Plant is in operations (not full time)

• Requires working in an lab environment.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.​​

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.​​

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.​​

• Take 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.​

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse 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.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.