
Manufacturing and Supply
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(InsuLINK Program) Reliability and Maintenance Digitisation Leader
Lyon, France
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Our teams produce and deliver over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines every year, ensuring every breakthrough gets to the people who need it most.
Our state-of-the-art facilities, AI-powered smart factories, and cutting-edge automation are redefining what’s possible: ensuring treatments reach patients faster, safer, and more sustainably than ever before. This is where your skills, ambition, and passion can shape the future of healthcare.
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Job title:(InsuLINK Program) Reliability and Maintenance Digitisation Leader
- Location: Lyon/Gentilly
- Perimeter: Gen Med – Global Engineering
- Domain: Engineering and Maintenance
About the job
Are you ready to jump into a mega project (> 2 B€ Capex program, thereof design/engineering budget >>200 m€) to bring in your experience & knowledge? The race is on to design & build our new Insulin flex facilities addressing BLA (Biologics License Application) inside a program of 2 news facilities in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and China. You will lead all Reliability Process implementation activities from Basic Engineering down to Detailed Design for Program in accordance with EHS, Quality, Business & Users requirements focus on design to cost solutions & process replication for Glargine in China. We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.
About Sanofi:
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Main responsibilities:
- Design the predictive strategy for global maintenance plan of the two facilities in a fully digital environment. As input, take in account impacts of potential failures on the 14 steps of insulin production and its value stream
- Onboard the Reliability Engineers for Germany and China sites
- Collaborate with automation and digital teams for integration of Smart Instrumentation and IoT devices. Contribute to site historian parameterization
- Define the advanced diagnostics data to collect. A good knowledge of key parameters on the process and FMEA analysis are to take in account
- Lead your team to implement conditional activities in substitution of systematic activities in maintenance instructions. Consider predictive approach if historic data is available in the monitoring solution. Support of AI tools or data scientists’ analysis is a plus
- Build a structured process to manage workorder based on pre-alarming of conditional/predictive monitoring. Take in account preparation and execution phases through the CMMS system, integer KPIs on costs and technical availability. Integer a continuous improvement loop based on review of “bad actors” equipment and recurrent failure modes to update regularly maintenance strategy and instructions
- Internal
- Provide support to transfer management of new plans to local organization with Reliability Engineer and operational maintenance teams (Germany and China). Take in account local environment for external support and resources
About you
Experience:
- Worked more than 5 years in technical positions in industrial sites, including at least one experience in Maintenance on a large-scale production environment
- Experience and knowledge of GMP, FDA, and EU guidelines especially data integrity requirements
- Experience in working in a large, complex matrixes environment with global processes and governance structures
Soft and technical skills:
- Rigorous, organized, factual and results-oriented
- Good general technical knowledge in mechanical and automation, ability to interact with experts, especially instrumentation and digital
- Ability to “speak with data” and data flow management in a 0-paper environment. Experiences with some streaming engines solutions, ERP and CMMS Systems, historian solutions or data lake solutions
- Customer Centricity/Results oriented/Teamwork/Clear thinker
- Act for innovation, initiating new and improved ways of working
Education:
- Master’s degree in industrial engineering domain: Generalist Engineer diploma
Languages:
- English (Project language)
- German is a plus
Why choose us?
- Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact
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Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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