Maintenance & Reliability Leader – Warehouse Ops

BioSpace; Northborough (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi is seeking a Head of Maintenance for our Northborough, MA warehouse facility. You will lead maintenance execution, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive asset reliability across the site, enabling safe and efficient operations within a fast-paced biopharma environment.

Key responsibilities include managing maintenance workflows, contractor relations, budgeting, and supporting shutdowns and major projects while upholding cGMP, data integrity, and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, maintenance management, life sciences, or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years leading technical teams in regulated manufacturing.
• Experience in maintenance execution, reliability, calibration, contractor management, budgeting, and shutdown support.
• Working knowledge of cGMP, data integrity, deviations, CAPAs, CMMS/EAM, safe-work permits, and LOTO.
• Strong communication, decision-making, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead preventive, corrective, condition-based maintenance, calibration, and periodic qualification.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with HSE, cGMP, data-integrity, permit, LOTO, energy-isolation, contractor-safety, and documentation requirements.
• Improve asset reliability and lifecycle performance through failure analysis, equipment criticality, condition monitoring, root cause analysis, and bad-actor elimination.
• Own maintenance workflows from work intake through closure. Manage contractors and vendors for safety, technical capability, quality, delivery, performance, and cost.
• Manage staffing, employee development, budgets, forecasts, service contracts, overtime, materials, and cost improvements without compromising safety, compliance, or reliability.
• Provide maintainability requirements for projects, commissioning, qualification, turnover, and equipment changes. Lead maintenance support for shutdowns, outages, start-ups, emergencies, and return-to-service.

Skills

Strong communication

Decision-making

Cross-functional leadership

Contractor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, maintenance management, life sciences, or related field

Professional certification such as PE, CMRP, CRL, PMP, CEM, or Lean Six Sigma

Tools

CMMS/EAM

Job description

Sanofi is seeking a Head of Maintenance for our Northborough, MA warehouse facility. You will lead maintenance execution, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive asset reliability across the site, enabling safe and efficient operations within a fast-paced biopharma environment.

Key responsibilities include managing maintenance workflows, contractor relations, budgeting, and supporting shutdowns and major projects while upholding cGMP, data integrity, and safety standards.