Job title: Quality Assurance Intern

• Location: Waterford, Ireland

• Start date: January 2026

• Duration: 6-8 months

About the job 

As a Quality Assurance Intern, you’ll play an important role in supporting the success of our Quality Department. You’ll help maintain a safe, efficient, and well-functioning aseptic filling environment working in line with Good Manfuacturing Practice (GMP). This is a hands-on opportunity to gain real-world experience while contributing to meaningful work. You’ll be encouraged to engage with our Continuous Improvement programme, sharing your ideas and fresh perspective to help enhance how we fill and release from a prefilled syringe filling line.

Throughout your internship, you’ll be expected to follow all regulatory and safety guidelines — protecting yourself, your colleagues, and ultimately, our patients.

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.

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.

Main responsibilities:

• Working as part of the Quality Assurance team on site ensuring products are manufactured, in accordance with cGMP.

• To ensure that all work carried out is in compliance with the required standards conforming to company, cGMPs, cGLPs, SOPs, regulatory regulations and guidelines.

• Perform timely review of documentation / investigations / reports highlighting and assisting in the resolution of concerns commensurate with the risk.

• Participate in the preparation and review of procedures and batch documentation.

• Review and approval of deviation, CAPA’s, quality events, change controls and tasks.

• Acts as Quality Point person for processes providing guidance / feedback on quality issues.

• Work with relevant departments to ensure timely closure of quality actions / findings.

• Actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

• Conduct duties in a safe manner and report all safety issues or concerns.

About you   

To excel in this role, you will need to:

• Be a 2nd or 3rd year third-level student, preferably from a science-related discipline

• Communicate effectively and facilitate discussions with confidence

• Demonstrate flexibility, drive, and a proactive, innovative mindset

• Collaborate well with others and contribute positively to team dynamics

• Show strong independence and self-motivation in managing tasks and learning opportunities

Why choose us? 

• Stretch your skills through apprenticeships, internships, graduate programs, and international experiences that grow with you. 

• Learn from inspiring mentors and collaborative teams while contributing to real projects that shape the future of healthcare. 

• Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve. 

• Explore more with personalized development plans, short-term gigs, and internal mobility across functions and countries. 

• Grow in a purpose-driven company where your voice matters and your work helps improve millions of lives. 

• Thrive in inclusive, flexible workplaces that support your personal and professional well-being. 

• Launch your career with a company that invests in you — and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.

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