Senior Equipment Reliability Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Sanofi in Northborough, MA is seeking a Senior Equipment Engineer to own the performance and lifecycle of critical manufacturing, facility, and lab equipment. You will lead field troubleshooting, plan maintenance, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and compliance in a regulated environment.

The role requires hands-on problem solving, strong documentation, and the ability to drive changes from design through turnover, with a focus on prevention, safety, and quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with at least 3 years in engineering for manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or complex process equipment in a regulated/high‑reliability environment.
• Candidates without a bachelor's degree must have at least 8 years of such experience.
• Demonstrated equipment troubleshooting 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 management: maintain asset health, design basis, operating limits, criticality, failure history, documentation, maintenance strategy, obsolescence risks, and improvement priorities.
• Lead troubleshooting and field support: diagnose mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues; partner with mechanics and technicians through repair, testing, and return to service.
• Build executable maintenance plans: develop and 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.
• 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 change controls and CAPAs, provide deviation assessments, and ensure hardware changes are implemented and documented.
• Drive reliability improvement: use downtime, deviations, maintenance findings, and condition data to reduce failures and downtime.
• Coordinate vendors and stakeholders: develop technical scopes, assess vendor capability, and collaborate with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, and Finance.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Maintenance planning

Education

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

Tools

CMMS/EAM systems

P&IDs & schematics

OEM technical packages

Job description

Sanofi in Northborough, MA is seeking a Senior Equipment Engineer to own the performance and lifecycle of critical manufacturing, facility, and lab equipment. You will lead field troubleshooting, plan maintenance, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and compliance in a regulated environment.

The role requires hands-on problem solving, strong documentation, and the ability to drive changes from design through turnover, with a focus on prevention, safety, and quality