MSAT Process Engineer Cell Culture

• Location: Geel, Belgium

About the job

Looking to launch your career at the cutting edge of healthcare? Join Sanofi for a chance to develop with mentoring and guidance from inspirational leaders while helping to make an impact on the lives of countless people worldwide. As Process Engineer in our Manufacturing Science & Analytical Technology (MSAT) Cell Culture team, you’ll focus on the upstream part of the biopharmaceutical manufacturing process. Leveraging strong scientific and technical knowledge, you will actively contribute to Technology Transfer activities facilitating the introduction of new products and processes at Sanofi‘s Geel manufacturing site. Additionally, you will support improvement initiatives and the ongoing monitoring of existing processes, both at the Geel site and within the broader Sanofi network. The position primarily focuses on manufacturing-scale activities, but involves a strong collaboration with the laboratory team on laboratory-scale activities.

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main responsibilities:

• New Product Introductions: Facilitate the technology transfer of biological drug substance manufacturing processes from development laboratories to large-scale GMP manufacturing facilities. This includes ensuring documentation readiness for clinical batch production, as well as providing support during process performance qualification to successfully implement new processes at manufacturing scale.

• Process Improvements: Identify and lead process improvement initiatives to increase process yield or robustness, and generate supportive data packages to enable implementation at manufacturing scale.

• Commercial Production Support: Provide ongoing support for existing commercial manufacturing processes through activities such as data trending and monitoring, developing scientific and technical study protocols and reports to support significant process changes, and contributing to investigations and process/product impact assessments for significant manufacturing deviations.

• Weekend Lab-Support System: Participate in the rotational weekend support system in the MSAT cell culture lab.

About you

• Education: PhD or Master’s degree in Life Sciences (or equivalent through experience) Languages: Fluent in oral and written English to effectively operate in an international environment.

• Soft and technical skills:

  • Hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture processes at laboratory and/or manufacturing scale; familiarity with purification processes is considered an advantage.

  • Flexibility: Willingness to adapt to dynamic work demands, including occasional evening or weekend shifts, and supporting both small-scale lab studies and manufacturing-scale operations.

  • A team player who works effectively across multidisciplinary teams and fosters productive relationships.

  • Ability to adjust to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.

  • Strong interpersonal skills to connect with colleagues, facilitate discussions, and negotiate compromises with other departments or sites.

  • A precise, detail-oriented mindset with excellent analytical skills for identifying and addressing challenges.

  • Familiarity with statistical and data trending techniques; experience with tools like JMP, Statistica, or Simca is a plus.

  • A solid understanding of current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP); prior GMP experience is an asset.

Why choose us?

• Contribute to the production of life-saving medications that improve patient outcomes worldwide

• Engage with a global network of professionals and benefit from a culture that promotes teamwork and mutual respect

• Supportive work environment that values employee wellbeing and possibility of remote work arrangements to support work-life balance

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration with research and development, manufacturing and quality teams to bring new therapies to the market

• Drive innovation and implementation of state-of-the-art technologies to enhance operational performance