Senior Downstream Equipment Reliability Engineer

Sanofi; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Sanofi Group in Framingham, MA, is seeking a Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream to own and optimize the lifecycle of critical downstream equipment. You will troubleshoot complex issues, develop robust maintenance plans, and lead modifications with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes maintenance readiness, risk-based PM strategies, and collaboration across Operations, Quality, Validation, and Engineering to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable processes in a regulated biopharma

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering.
• At least 3 years of engineering experience supporting manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment 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.
• Ability to work effectively in the field and communicate technical risk and recommendations to technical teams and leaders.

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: Diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues. Partner directly with mechanics and technicians through repair, testing, and return to service.
• Build executable maintenance plans: Develop and technically approve complete work packages, including scope, sequence, labor, parts, tools, permits, LOTO, acceptance criteria, post-maintenance testing, and restoration requirements.
• Optimize preventive maintenance and spares: Create risk-based PM strategies, equipment BOMs, critical-spares lists, stocking recommendations, and obsolescence mitigation plans using equipment criticality, failure modes, OEM guidance, and operating history.
• Lead equipment changes and projects: Define technical requirements and lead design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, qualification, turnover, training, maintenance readiness, and documentation for modifications and new equipment.
• Own technical quality actions: Lead equipment-specific change controls and CAPAs, provide timely deviation assessments, and ensure approved hardware changes are implemented, tested, documented, and effectively closed.
• Drive reliability improvement: Use downtime, repeat work, deviations, maintenance findings, and condition data to eliminate bad actors and improve reliability, maintainability, safety, and compliance.
• Coordinate vendors and stakeholders: Develop technical scopes, assess vendor capability and performance, and collaborate with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, and Finance.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Maintenance planning

Field work

Communication to teams

Education

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

Tools

CMMS/EAM systems

P&IDs

Job description

Sanofi Group in Framingham, MA, is seeking a Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream to own and optimize the lifecycle of critical downstream equipment. You will troubleshoot complex issues, develop robust maintenance plans, and lead modifications with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes maintenance readiness, risk-based PM strategies, and collaboration across Operations, Quality, Validation, and Engineering to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable processes in a regulated biopharma