Head of Clean Utilities & Sustainability

Sanofi Group; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi Framingham, MA is seeking a strategic leader to head Clean Utilities and Sustainability. You will own the safe, compliant operation of GMP utility systems, drive reliability, and align energy, water, and waste programs with Planet Care targets.

This role partners across manufacturing, quality, safety, and site leadership to deliver lifecycle improvements, cost control, and continuous improvement while maintaining inspection readiness.

Responsibilities

• Clean utility operations and maintenance: Ensure safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of clean utility systems, including applicable purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, process gases, and other GMP utility systems within the approved site asset boundary.
• System ownership and state of control: Maintain current understanding of system performance, capacity, compliance, validated state, condition, lifecycle risk, recurring issues, documentation, and improvement priorities. Ensure timely escalation and risk-based interim controls when performance or compliance is challenged.
• Sustainability strategy and Planet Care delivery: Lead the site cross-functional sustainability program and roadmap to deliver applicable Planet Care targets for carbon dioxide emissions, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity. Establish governance, workstreams, owners, milestones, performance reviews, and recovery plans.
• Safe work and HSE integration: Embed 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.
• Reliability and lifecycle management: Use criticality, system performance, failure history, condition data, deviations, root cause analysis, bad-actor management, and lifecycle plans to improve reliability, maintainability, resilience, redundancy, and business continuity.
• Process improvement and operational excellence: Implement technical and process improvements that strengthen utility efficiency, safety, quality, availability, control strategy, operator effectiveness, and response to abnormal conditions.
• Utility and sustainability budget management: Manage departmental budgets and forecasts for clean utilities, purchased utilities, service contracts, and sustainability initiatives, including electricity, natural gas, water, wastewater, and carbon-related programs. Maintain transparent commitments, accruals, forecasts, and cost controls.
• Conservation and cost improvement: Identify, assess, prioritize, and execute energy-efficiency, water-reduction, waste-minimization, heat-recovery, demand-management, and utility-optimization opportunities without compromising product quality, compliance, safety, or system resilience.
• People leadership: Determine organization design, staffing strategy, role clarity, talent selection, objective setting, performance management, succession planning, technical capability, and employee development for the Clean Utilities and Sustainability organization.
• Contractor and vendor management: Select and govern contractors, original equipment manufacturers, utilities providers, consultants, and service partners for safety, compliance, technical capability, quality, delivery, continuity, performance, and cost.
• Project and change support: Provide clean utility and sustainability requirements for site master planning, capital projects, design reviews, equipment and process changes, commissioning and qualification, turnover, spares, maintenance strategies, metering, documentation, training, and operational readiness.
• Compliance and inspection readiness: Maintain inspection-ready utility programs, accurate records, data integrity, approved procedures, validated system controls, and effective response to deviations.

Job description

Job Title: Head of Clean Utilities and Sustainability

• Location: Framingham, MA

About the Job

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 lives.

Main Responsibilities

• Clean utility operations and maintenance: Ensure safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of clean utility systems, including applicable purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, process gases, and other GMP utility systems within the approved site asset boundary.
• System ownership and state of control: Maintain current understanding of system performance, capacity, compliance, validated state, condition, lifecycle risk, recurring issues, documentation, and improvement priorities. Ensure timely escalation and risk-based interim controls when performance or compliance is challenged.
• Sustainability strategy and Planet Care delivery: Lead the site cross-functional sustainability program and roadmap to deliver applicable Planet Care targets for carbon dioxide emissions, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity. Establish governance, workstreams, owners, milestones, performance reviews, and recovery plans.
• Safe work and HSE integration: Embed 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.
• Reliability and lifecycle management: Use criticality, system performance, failure history, condition data, deviations, root cause analysis, bad-actor management, and lifecycle plans to improve reliability, maintainability, resilience, redundancy, and business continuity.
• Process improvement and operational excellence: Implement technical and process improvements that strengthen utility efficiency, safety, quality, availability, control strategy, operator effectiveness, and response to abnormal conditions.
• Utility and sustainability budget management: Manage departmental budgets and forecasts for clean utilities, purchased utilities, service contracts, and sustainability initiatives, including electricity, natural gas, water, wastewater, and carbon-related programs. Maintain transparent commitments, accruals, forecasts, and cost controls.
• Conservation and cost improvement: Identify, assess, prioritize, and execute energy-efficiency, water-reduction, waste-minimization, heat-recovery, demand-management, and utility-optimization opportunities without compromising product quality, compliance, safety, or system resilience.
• People leadership: Determine organization design, staffing strategy, role clarity, talent selection, objective setting, performance management, succession planning, technical capability, and employee development for the Clean Utilities and Sustainability organization.
• Contractor and vendor management: Select and govern contractors, original equipment manufacturers, utilities providers, consultants, and service partners for safety, compliance, technical capability, quality, delivery, continuity, performance, and cost.
• Project and change support: Provide clean utility and sustainability requirements for site master planning, capital projects, design reviews, equipment and process changes, commissioning and qualification, turnover, spares, maintenance strategies, metering, documentation, training, and operational readiness.
• Compliance and inspection readiness: Maintain inspection-ready utility programs, accurate records, data integrity, approved procedures, validated system controls, and effective response to deviations,