Process Engineer

Job description

Job title

Process Engineer

About the Opportunity

As a Process Engineer with Sanofi you will provide leadership and support to operations teams to ensure appropriate standards are met.

The role will involve the development and implementation of improvement initiatives in all manufacturing and development operations.

About Sanofi Business Unit

The multiple national award-winning Sanofi Waterford biopharmaceutical and medical device campus is located in Waterford on Ireland’s southeast coast. Established in 2001 and now with more than 650 employees, the site has seen more than €600m invested in state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology. Diversification continues to bring new products to Waterford and the expanded site portfolio continues to create new opportunities. 

Fill Finish is the department where product which treat rare conditions is filled and finished in a highly automated, sterile, controlled and regulated environment.

Key responsibilities

·  Liaise with external and internal customers, suppliers and agencies to define and improve manufacturing and development operations.
·  Optimisation of manufacturing and development operations.
·  Identification & implementation of opportunities for improvements.
·  Assist in the implementation of capital projects.
·  Act as process lead for inspection development.
·  Lead technical problem resolution & RCA for all manufacturing operations, in conjunction with cross functional teams.
·  Implementation and monitoring of performance metrics.
·  Lead cycle time reduction initiatives in conjunction with manufacturing teams.
·  Implementation of best practice.
·  Process development programme design / plant trials, execution and implementation.
·  Constantly seeking to challenge operational standards and driving continuous improvement.

About You

To excel in this role you will need to have:

Essential requirements:

·  Degree in Chemical, Industrial or equivalent Engineering discipline.
·  Minimum 5 years’ experience in an Engineering role.
·  1 - 2 years’ experience of sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
·  Technical knowledge of relevant manufacturing technology.
·  Detailed knowledge of cGMP.

What Sanofi can offer you?

·  A successor position to Manufacturing or Engineering Team leaders positions on the site.
·  Opportunity to improve production output by building efficiency and improvement into the process and equipment.
·  A cross functional role throughout the site.

About Sanofi

Empower Life Everyday

At Sanofi we work across human health from vaccines to rare diseases, and consumer healthcare. This creates opportunities to work across different areas to build a diverse and exciting career. Sanofi has the capabilities and resources to support your aspirations to fulfill your ambitions and be the best you can be.

Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top 3 innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we’re not there to try to solve everybody’s problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference.  

The values we are live by are teamwork, courage, respect and integrity.

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.