Senior Maintenance & Reliability Leader - Biopharma

Sanofi Group; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (14 weeks)

Healthcare benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Sanofi seeks a Head of Maintenance- Support Services to lead maintenance execution, safety, reliability, and contractor management at our Framingham site. You will drive budgets, staffing, and project support for shutdowns, turnarounds, and turn-ins, ensuring cGMP compliance and data integrity in a fast-paced biopharma manufacturing environment.

The role requires 10+ years in maintenance with 5+ years leading technical teams, strong cross-functional leadership, and a solid CMMS/EAM background.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, maintenance management, life sciences, or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, incl. 5+ years leading technical teams in regulated manufacturing.
• Experience in maintenance execution, reliability, calibration, contractor management, budgeting, and shutdown support.
• Knowledge of cGMP, data integrity, deviations, CAPAs, CMMS/EAM, safe-work permits, and LOTO.
• Strong communication, decision-making, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Execution: Lead preventive, corrective, condition-based maintenance, calibration, and periodic qualification.
• Safety and Compliance: Ensure maintenance activities comply with HSE, cGMP, data-integrity, permit, LOTO, energy-isolation, contractor-safety, and documentation requirements.
• Reliability and Operational Support: Improve asset reliability and lifecycle performance through failure analysis, equipment criticality, condition monitoring, root cause analysis, and bad-actor elimination.
• Work and Contractor Management: Own maintenance workflows from work intake through closure. Manage contractors and vendors for safety, technical capability, quality, delivery, performance, and cost.
• Financial and People Leadership: Manage staffing, employee development, budgets, forecasts, service contracts, overtime, materials, and cost improvements without compromising safety, compliance, or reliability.
• Projects and Shutdowns: 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

Leadership

Regulated manufacturing experience

cGMP knowledge

Data integrity

CMMS/EAM experience

LOTO procedures

Budgeting

Shutdown support

Contractor management

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Sanofi seeks a Head of Maintenance- Support Services to lead maintenance execution, safety, reliability, and contractor management at our Framingham site. You will drive budgets, staffing, and project support for shutdowns, turnarounds, and turn-ins, ensuring cGMP compliance and data integrity in a fast-paced biopharma manufacturing environment.

The role requires 10+ years in maintenance with 5+ years leading technical teams, strong cross-functional leadership, and a solid CMMS/EAM background.