Head of Clean Utilities & Sustainability

Sanofi • Framingham, MA

2d • $148,500 - $214,500 • 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, and leads the site’s cross-functional sustainability program and roadmap to deliver applicable Planet Care targets for carbon emissions, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity. The position oversees system performance, validated state, lifecycle risks, reliability, maintenance, operational improvements, budgets, conservation initiatives, people, contractors, and vendors.

The role provides clean utility and sustainability requirements for site planning and capital projects, design reviews, changes, commissioning and qualification, turnover, maintenance strategies, metering, documentation, training, and operational readiness. It maintains inspection-ready programs and records, supports investigations and regulatory inspections, and leads utility support for shutdowns, outages, start-up, emergency conditions, and manufacturing escalations. The role defines and reviews performance indicators for utility availability, compliance, maintenance, sustainability, project delivery, budgets, and savings.

The position makes decisions concerning people management, sustainability priorities and governance, clean utility operating strategy, and contractor and vendor performance within approved procedures, policies, budgets, and delegated authority. It coordinates with manufacturing, quality, engineering, finance, project teams, and site leadership on demand, outages, regulatory and quality risks, capital changes, business continuity, and performance escalations.

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 or more 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.
• Five or more 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 communicate technical risk, sustainability performance, priorities, decisions, and investment needs clearly 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, process gases, and associated 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 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 utility systems within the approved site asset boundary.
• Maintain current understanding of utility system performance, capacity, compliance, validated state, condition, lifecycle risk, recurring issues, documentation, and improvement priorities; escalate risks and establish interim controls when needed.
• Lead the site cross-functional sustainability program and roadmap, establishing governance, workstreams, owners, milestones, performance reviews, and recovery plans to deliver applicable Planet Care targets for carbon emissions, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity.
• Integrate HSE requirements into utility operation and maintenance, including permits, lockout/tagout, 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 and condition data, failure history, 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, 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, validated system controls, and effective responses to deviations, investigations, CAPAs, audits, and health authority inspections.
• Lead utility support for planned shutdowns, outages, tie-ins, start-up, restoration, emergency conditions, 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 people-management decisions regarding talent selection, organization sizing, work allocation, performance management, capability building, succession planning, and development within approved headcount and budget.
• Determine sustainability roadmap priorities, workstreams, milestones, governance, performance reviews, and recovery actions.
• Set clean utility operating, maintenance, monitoring, alarm-response, escalation, and lifecycle approaches within approved procedures, quality systems, budgets, and delegated authority.
• Make contractor and vendor technical selection and performance decisions within procurement policy, approved budgets, service requirements, and delegated authority.
• Ensure sustained clean utility state of control, reliable manufacturing supply, safe execution, proactive risk management, and timely escalation of utility threats.
• Ensure accurate sustainability performance data, transparent forecasts, initiative delivery, risk escalation, and progress against carbon, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity commitments.
• Provide complete and timely clean utility and sustainability project input for capacity, redundancy, efficiency, metering, design reviews, commissioning, qualification, turnover, spares, documentation, and training.
• Identify, prioritize, sponsor, and implement reliability, maintainability, and HSE improvements supported by system risk, performance, and lifecycle data.
• Manage utility and sustainability costs through budget planning, consumption forecasting, commitments, accruals, tariff and demand awareness, cost controls, savings validation, and transparent trade-off recommendations.
• Stay informed of production schedules, campaign changes, shutdown scope, utility demand changes, equipment access constraints, recovery priorities, quality and regulatory risks, capital and site-plan changes, business and supply risks, and conditions requiring leadership action.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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