Sr. Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream

Sanofi • Framingham, MA

1d • $100,500 - $145,167 • Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Equipment Process Engineer is the technical owner for an assigned portfolio of manufacturing, utility, facility, or laboratory equipment. The role improves equipment safety, compliance, availability, and lifecycle performance through hands-on troubleshooting, maintenance strategies, equipment changes, technical documentation, and cross-functional leadership.

The position is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, and supports Sanofi’s Manufacturing & Supply organization. The engineer owns equipment performance and lifecycle planning, leads field troubleshooting and maintenance planning, optimizes preventive maintenance and spare-parts strategies, and leads equipment changes and projects from requirements and design reviews through commissioning, qualification, turnover, and maintenance readiness. The role also leads equipment-specific quality actions and reliability improvements, coordinates vendors and stakeholders, and maintains accurate, traceable, inspection-ready technical records.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering discipline, with at least 3 years of relevant engineering experience in manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
• Candidates without a bachelor's degree must have at least 8 years of relevant experience in manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
• Demonstrated equipment troubleshooting capability using drawings, manuals, data, failure history, and structured root-cause methods.
• Experience developing job plans, preventive-maintenance tasks, technical specifications, spare-parts recommendations, or maintenance strategies.
• Experience supporting equipment modifications, commissioning, qualification, change control, deviations, or CAPAs.
• Ability to work effectively in the field and communicate technical risk and recommendations to technical teams and leaders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, SUT, or other cGMP manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of CMMS/EAM systems, equipment BOMs, work-order controls, and maintenance master data.
• Knowledge of reliability methods, including criticality, FMEA, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, bad-actor elimination, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience with P&IDs, electrical and mechanical drawings, instrumentation, controls interfaces, and OEM technical packages.
• PE, CMRP/CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management training, or related professional certification.

Responsibilities

• Own equipment health and lifecycle information, including design basis, operating limits, criticality, failure history, documentation, maintenance strategy, obsolescence risks, and improvement priorities.
• Diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues, and partner with mechanics and technicians through repair, testing, and return to service.
• Develop and technically approve complete, executable work packages, including scope, sequence, labor, parts, tools, permits, LOTO, acceptance criteria, post-maintenance testing, and restoration requirements.
• Develop risk-based preventive maintenance strategies, equipment bills of materials, critical-spares lists, stocking recommendations, and obsolescence mitigation plans.
• Lead equipment modifications and new-equipment projects, including technical requirements, design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, maintenance readiness, and documentation.
• Lead equipment-specific change controls and CAPAs, assess deviations, and ensure approved hardware changes are implemented, tested, documented, and closed effectively.
• Use downtime, repeat work, deviations, maintenance findings, and condition data to eliminate bad actors and improve reliability, maintainability, safety, and compliance.
• Develop vendor scopes, assess vendor capability and performance, and collaborate with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, and Finance.
• Deliver schedule-ready work packages and maintenance master data, risk-based PM programs, accurate equipment BOMs, critical-spares strategies, and complete technical turnover for equipment changes and new assets.
• Maintain accurate, traceable, inspection-ready drawings, specifications, manuals, and records.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing benefits, including high-quality healthcare, prevention, and wellness programs.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in company employee benefit programs.

What This Job Offers

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