
Manufacturing and Supply
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Manufacturing Operations Team Member
At a glance
Our teams produce and deliver over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines every year, ensuring every breakthrough gets to the people who need it most.
Our state-of-the-art facilities, AI-powered smart factories, and cutting-edge automation are redefining what’s possible: ensuring treatments reach patients faster, safer, and more sustainably than ever before. This is where your skills, ambition, and passion can shape the future of healthcare.
Manufacturing Operations Team Member
- Location Waterford
- Fixed Term – Full Time
- 24/7 Shift Pattern
About Waterford
For more than 20 years, our Waterford team has continued to grow and diversify to serve patients around the world. Today, a team of almost 800 work together at a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical and medical device campus. Recognised through multiple local and national awards, Sanofi Waterford offers flexible working and access to a world of opportunities to grow your career at one location. As well as attractive benefits, the team enjoy access to an onsite gym and medical centre that underpin a strong commitment to health and wellbeing.
The manufacturing team member is critical to the delivery and success of operations within Sanofi Waterford. In this role you will be an integral part of a highly engaged and functional operational team who are aligned with site business objectives. Specific opportunities have arisen to be part of a team to introduce a new Filling process to the site.
Main responsibilities:
- To ensure our products are manufactured with cGMP and HSE guidelines.
- Operate and maintain equipment as part of the production lines to achieve the required level of output
- Maintain and support schedule adherence ensuring RFT (Right First Time).
- Complete as per relevant SOP’s /WI’s and training requirements.
- Adherence to aseptic practices and procedures.
- Adhere to all relevant dress code requirements with respect to cGMP’s and PPE rules.
About you:
- Previous sterile experience is essential
- Experience of working in a cGMP environment
It would be advantageous to have (not essential):
- Competent in the operation, cleaning, maintenance of all manufacturing equipment
- MES/SCADA and SAP experience
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- Demonstrated good understanding of mechanical operations
- Technical writing skills
- Good knowledge of cGMP
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Understands site KPI’s
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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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Why work with us
- We’re problem-solvers and pioneers. United by the belief that everyone deserves a healthier future. We create best-in-class vaccines that prevent disease and protect lives.
- Innovation drives us. From AI and mRNA to next-gen science, we push the boundaries to deliver first- and best-in-class vaccines for infectious diseases worldwide.
- Growth happens here. With bold investments in R&D and world-class facilities, Sanofians across the entire vaccine lifecycle are shaping the future of global health.
- We do what’s right. Sustainability and DE&I drive our positive global impact—because the diverse communities Sanofians represent are the patients we serve.
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