
Manufacturing and Supply
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miracles of
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Process Engineer
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.
Process Engineer
- Location Waterford
- Fixed Term Contract
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.
As Process Engineer you will be responsible for:
Main responsibilities:
- Provide process engineering support to the Lyo APU.
- Support delivery of continuous improvement projects to existing equipment.
- Work closely with various departments, such as MSAT, Technical Development, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain.
- Lead and coordinate elements of an automated inspection project and contribute to process engineering activities related to the development of new and existing manufacturing capacity.
- Utilisation of knowledge gained from existing manufacturing technologies to aid in the development of new technologies with the goal of implementing higher output and yield.
- Ensure safety compliance, providing technical and engineering support for process and equipment failures, identifying, and implementing process and product improvements, supporting qualification of new products/processes, analysing machine performance data, and managing improvement projects within budget and time constraints.
- Support new product introductions and capacity expansions, including new vendor selections, maintenance planning, design changes, change controls, OEE improvement, yield improvement, etc.
- Lead systematic technical root cause investigations, Customer Complaints, Vendor Complaint, Change Controls and annual PQR Reports.
- Support all company safety and quality programs and initiatives.
About you
- Experience in a highly regulated GMP environment.
- Degree in an Engineering discipline.
- Strong problem solving and communication skills.
- Strong documentation/protocol generation and execution skills.
- Background in high volume inspection with demonstrated experience.
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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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