Senior Downstream Equipment Engineer - Reliability

Sanofi Group; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi is seeking a Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream in Framingham, MA. The role owns equipment performance, lifecycle, and maintenance strategies, combining hands-on troubleshooting with robust documentation and cross-functional leadership.

You will optimize preventive maintenance, spares, and reliability while coordinating with Operations, Quality, Validation, and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline and 3+ years in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering discipline.
• At least 3 years of engineering experience in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
• Demonstrated equipment troubleshooting capability using drawings, manuals, data, failure history, and structured root-cause methods.
• Experience developing job plans, PM tasks, technical specifications, spare-parts recommendations, or maintenance strategies.
• Experience supporting equipment modifications, commissioning, qualification, change control, deviations, or CAPAs.

Responsibilities

• Own equipment performance and lifecycle: maintain asset health, design basis, operating limits, criticality, failure history, documentation, maintenance strategy, obsolescence risks, and improvement priorities.
• Lead troubleshooting and field support by diagnosing mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues with technicians.
• Build executable maintenance plans including scope, sequence, labor, parts, permits, LOTO, acceptance criteria, testing, and turnover.
• Optimize preventive maintenance and spares with risk-based PM strategies and critical-spares lists.
• Lead equipment changes and projects: define tech requirements, lead design reviews, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, and documentation.
• Own technical quality actions: manage change controls, CAPAs, deviations, and ensure hardware changes are implemented and closed.
• Drive reliability: use data to eliminate bad actors and improve maintenance and safety.
• Coordinate vendors and stakeholders with cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication of technical risk

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering

Tools

CMMS/EAM systems

P&ID drawings

Job description

Sanofi is seeking a Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream in Framingham, MA. The role owns equipment performance, lifecycle, and maintenance strategies, combining hands-on troubleshooting with robust documentation and cross-functional leadership.

You will optimize preventive maintenance, spares, and reliability while coordinating with Operations, Quality, Validation, and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline and 3+ years in a