Head of Clean Utilities & Sustainability

Sanofi • Framingham, MA

18h • Onsite

About The Position

The Head of Clean Utilities and Sustainability leads the safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of clean utility systems within the approved site asset boundary, including purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, process gases, and other GMP utility systems. The role owns system performance and state of control, including capacity, compliance, validated state, condition, lifecycle risk, recurring issues, documentation, and improvement priorities, and ensures timely escalation and risk-based interim controls when performance or compliance is challenged.

The role leads the site's cross-functional sustainability program and roadmap to deliver applicable Planet Care targets for carbon dioxide emissions, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity. It establishes governance, workstreams, ownership, milestones, performance reviews, and recovery plans, and identifies and delivers conservation and utility-optimization opportunities without compromising product quality, compliance, safety, or resilience.

The position manages utility and sustainability budgets, forecasts, service contracts, purchased utilities, and cost controls. It provides people leadership for the Clean Utilities and Sustainability organization and governs contractors, vendors, utilities providers, consultants, and service partners. It also contributes technical requirements to site planning and capital projects, design reviews, changes, commissioning and qualification, turnover, maintenance strategies, metering, documentation, training, and operational readiness.

The role maintains inspection-ready utility programs and supports shutdowns, outages, tie-ins, start-up, restoration, emergency conditions, and manufacturing escalations. It defines and reviews performance indicators for utility availability, maintenance, failures, energy and water intensity, greenhouse-gas performance, waste diversion, project delivery, budget adherence, and savings. The position is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, Environmental, Biomedical, or related), Chemistry, Environmental Science, Life Sciences, or a related technical or scientific discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in utilities, facilities, engineering, reliability, energy, environmental sustainability, or technical operations, with significant leadership responsibility in a complex GMP-regulated environment.

Nice To Haves

• Technical experience managing clean and industrial utilities in complex manufacturing environments, with working knowledge of GMP utility design, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated experience with energy and environmental management systems, programs, performance reporting, and conservation projects.
• 5+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical industry.
• Demonstrated people leadership, contractor management, financial stewardship, and cross-functional program leadership.
• Working knowledge of cGMP, data integrity, change control, deviations and CAPAs, commissioning and qualification, maintenance work management, permits, energy isolation, and LOTO.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical risk, sustainability performance, priorities, decisions, and investment needs to technical teams and site leadership.
• Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated manufacturing, including utility support for biologics or single-use manufacturing operations.
• Experience with clean utilities such as purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, and process gases, and their generation, storage, distribution, sanitization, monitoring, and control systems.
• Knowledge of industrial utilities, including electrical distribution, natural gas, steam, chilled water, cooling water, compressed air, HVAC interfaces, wastewater, and utility metering.
• Experience developing decarbonization, energy, water, waste, or biodiversity roadmaps and delivering projects from feasibility through benefits verification.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM, BMS, SCADA or automation platforms, historian and continuous-monitoring systems, utility data analytics, and KPI development.
• Professional Engineer licensure, Certified Energy Manager, Certified Energy Auditor, PMP, Lean/Six Sigma, ISO 50001 or ISO 14001 experience, or an equivalent professional credential.
• Strategic thinking and utility lifecycle planning.
• Clean utility technical leadership.
• cGMP compliance and inspection readiness.
• Safety and environmental compliance.
• Energy, water, carbon, waste, and biodiversity management.
• Reliability, maintainability, and business continuity.
• Financial, budget, and utility-cost management.
• Project and change management.
• Data analysis, metering, KPI governance, and performance reporting.
• People leadership, coaching, and talent development.
• Cross-functional influence and executive communication.
• Results orientation and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of clean utility systems, including purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, process gases, and other GMP utilities.
• Maintain system ownership and state of control, including performance, capacity, validated state, condition, lifecycle risks, recurring issues, records, and improvement priorities; escalate risks and implement interim controls as needed.
• Lead the site cross-functional sustainability program and roadmap for applicable Planet Care targets covering carbon dioxide emissions, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity.
• Establish sustainability governance, workstreams, owners, milestones, performance reviews, and recovery plans.
• Integrate health, safety, and environmental requirements into utility operations and maintenance, including permits, energy isolation, confined space, hot work, line breaking, chemical handling, contractor safety, environmental controls, and post-work restoration.
• Improve reliability, maintainability, resilience, redundancy, and business continuity using criticality, performance, failure history, condition data, deviations, root cause analysis, bad-actor management, and lifecycle plans.
• Implement technical and process improvements that strengthen utility efficiency, safety, quality, availability, control strategy, operator effectiveness, and response to abnormal conditions.
• Manage departmental budgets and forecasts for clean utilities, purchased utilities, service contracts, and sustainability initiatives; maintain transparent commitments, accruals, forecasts, and cost controls.
• Identify, assess, prioritize, and execute energy-efficiency, water-reduction, waste-minimization, heat-recovery, demand-management, and utility-optimization opportunities without compromising quality, compliance, safety, or resilience.
• Lead the Clean Utilities and Sustainability organization, including organization design, staffing, role clarity, talent selection, objectives, performance management, succession planning, technical capability, and employee development.
• Select and govern contractors, equipment manufacturers, utility providers, consultants, and service partners for safety, compliance, technical capability, quality, delivery, continuity, performance, and cost.
• Provide clean utility and sustainability requirements for site master planning, capital projects, design reviews, equipment and process changes, commissioning and qualification, turnover, spares, maintenance strategies, metering, documentation, training, and operational readiness.
• Maintain inspection-ready utility programs, accurate records, data integrity, approved procedures, and validated system controls; respond effectively to deviations, investigations, CAPAs, audits, and health authority inspections.
• Lead utility support for planned shutdowns, outages, tie-ins, start-up, restoration, emergencies, and manufacturing escalations; verify contingency controls, testing, communication, and safe return to service.
• Define and routinely review KPIs for utility availability, excursions, alarm response, preventive maintenance and calibration completion, schedule adherence, repeat failures, energy and water intensity, greenhouse-gas performance, waste diversion, project delivery, budget adherence, and realized savings.
• Make or contribute to decisions concerning people management, sustainability priorities, clean utility operating strategy, contractor and vendor performance, utility safety and availability, sustainability reporting, project input, reliability and HSE improvements, cost management, manufacturing demand and outage priorities, and performance escalation.
• Stay informed about production schedules, campaign changes, shutdown scope, utility demand, access constraints, recovery priorities, quality and regulatory risks, capital projects, supply constraints, vendor continuity, critical spares, and business-continuity risks.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing benefits, including high-quality healthcare and prevention and wellness programs.
• At least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• Company employee benefit programs; additional benefits information is available through the company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director