Job title:Engineering Process Lead

• Location: Lyon, France Region – Project is at Neuville Site
• <10% Remote working and ~10% of travel expected
• Job type: Permanent

About the job

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 people’s lives.

Our Team:

As part of the Global Engineering, the France Project Delivery Team supports the region for the execution of Capex Projects. Our main mission is to:

• Lead all Tiers 1 & 2 Projects & Programs
• Lead strategic projects from Feasibility to Commissioning, Qualification & Validation in a “hybrid organizational mode” with Sites to ensure a robust handover after startup
• Build robust organization for each Tiers 1 & 2 Project mixing expertise & leadership from Sanofi Local & Global aligned with Cluster & Site head

Main responsibilities:

Project delivery

• Capacity to Manage investment projects beyond 15M€ for France
• Lead the process equipment packages for major investment projects
• Fully understand contents of URS and challenge what could be technically optimized
• Write or make writing full Request for Quotation (RFQ), capability to challenge and re-orientate RFQ process to meet the objectives of the project
• Develop a partnership with future users and stakeholders for optimizing the Request for Quotation phases of the project
• Contribute to Identify with project leader and Site Engineering Head appropriate staffing for the project organization
• Ensure that EHS, Quality standards are implemented & validated before execution focus on design equipment to cost solutions
• Collaborate transversally with Global functions, particularly with MSAT & Sites to define for each key project steps optimized process equipment solutions
• Leverage Global Engineering expertise & know-how to support the systems leaders on specific & complex technical challenges
• Build and sustain high performance technical team with a focus on transmission from senior leader to newcomers
• Ensure transversal alignment and governance with Project and Site leadership teams for efficient & effective decision making
• Anticipate, confirm & communicate project risks on & across the site
• Create & track action plans to manage risk all along the project
• Assist Site teams (Operations & Quality) & MSAT during PQ & validation activities before full handover

Project & Maintenance activities

• Ensure risk analysis, FMEA including Digital for critical assets is deployed during the project to ensure a relevant preventive & predictive maintenance plan is ready before start-up
• Ensure assets reliability and maintainability by design
  

Project & sustainability key input

• Ensure that by CO2 emission, energy and utilities are as lower as possible by design assuming that for a new building or extension (HVAC included), target is zero emission
• Ensure planet care group targets

About you

Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience in senior Engineering, medium/large project in process equipment management, for bulk (upstream and downstream) major projects

Soft skills:

• Collaborate effectively with peers, stakeholders, partners across the organization to positively impact business results
• Act for change and innovation, initiating new and improved ways of working
• Develop teams in anticipation of future business needs
• Develop Performance through pragmatic approach
• LEAN oriented, problem solving & new way of working
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Open minded and curios to learn new tools
• Ability to influence and build relationships across the organization

Technical skills:

• Good experience in Engineering & Technical Management, very knowledgeable in biotechnology bulk process
• Abilify to influence and build relationships across the organization
• Engineering & Manufacturing site operations
• Large project execution, management of technical teams
• Leadership skills demonstrated with successful & managing transversal international team
• 10+ years of experience in management/execution of large capital investments in the biopharmaceutical industry/design of bio/pharma process unit operations

Education:

• Engineering or Science equivalent degree
• Large Process equipment background is a must
• Project management background required with PMP designation a bonus
• Ability to influence and build relationships across the organization

Languages:

• Fluent English spoken and written compulsory
• French spoken a definite asset

Why Choose Us?

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.

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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

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