Reliability Engineer

Job description

Job title

Reliability Engineer

About the Opportunity

As a Reliability Engineer with Sanofi you will provide Technical support to the Production Department on reliability improvement
elements, as directed by the site’s Reliability Excellence  Program, including the management of the production Predictive Maintenance system, building of Bill of Materials (BOMs) for Critical Fill Finish Equipment, progressing the build of critical spare parts, facilitating Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA) Events within Fill Finish, and generating/providing key data for Equipment Performance Reviews on Critical production Equipment.
 

About Sanofi Business Unit

The multiple national award-winning Sanofi Waterford biopharmaceutical and medical device campus is 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. 

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for the safe accomplishment of activities whilst following all statutory, environmental, regulatory (cGMP), corporate and departmental policies and procedures.
• Represent the Production Team on the Site's Reliability Excellence Program Core Team.
• Responsibility of production equipment Predictive Maintenace system.
• Responsible for progressing the build of Bill of Materials (BOMs) on Critical Equipment within production.
• Support the facilitation and follow up requirements of the Equipment Performance Review (EPRs) on Critical Equipment within production.
• Responsible for progressing associated build work to ensure critical spare parts that have been identified are progressed to the point of order with on-site vendor.
• Work in conjunction with the Production Equipment Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Reliability Excellence Team in the preparation, support during and close out of Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) Events.
• Manage all the equipment material gathered for each event, including; Preventive/Corrective Maintenance details, equipment performance info, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Drawings, Vendor info, Spares info etc..
• Work closely with the FMECA Team to ensure that all outputs from the events are processed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for meeting predefined targets with respect to preparing documentation/data, participating in and following up on production related events for the Site's Rx Program.
• Support the site’s Unplanned Downtime Governance process by collecting, transcribing and providing key data to stakeholders and work with the Production/ Team.
• Leadership activities including selection, development, coaching and day to day management.
• Required to comply with Sanofi Global Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, regulatory requirements and execute current Good manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in the performance of day to day activities and all applicable job functions.
• May be required to perform other duties as assigned.

About You

To excel in this role, you will need to have: -

Essential requirements:

·  Degree in an Engineering discipline.
·  Minimum 2 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.
·  Knowledge in Equipment Reliability projects
·  Problem solving techniques.

What Sanofi can offer you

·  A successor position to Manufacturing or Engineering Team leaders’ positions on the site.
·  Opportunity to improve production capacity 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.