Sr. Equipment Process Engineer - Upstream

BioSpace; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No-listed perks

Job summary

Sanofi US Services in Framingham, MA is seeking a Senior Equipment Process Engineer-Upstream to own an asset portfolio, improve safety, reliability, and lifecycle performance.

You will lead maintenance plans, troubleshoot complex issues, and coordinate with Operations, Quality, and Automation to deliver compliant, cost-effective results.

This role combines hands-on work with rigorous documentation and cross-functional leadership in a regulated biopharma environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years 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 mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control-interface issues; collaborate with mechanics and technicians.
• Build executable maintenance plans: Develop work packages with scope, sequence, labor, parts, tools, permits, LOTO, acceptance criteria, tests, turnover.
• Optimize preventive maintenance and spares: Create risk-based PM strategies, BOMs, critical-spares lists, stocking recommendations, obsolescence plans.
• Lead equipment changes and projects: Define technical requirements, lead design reviews, vendor selection, FAT/SAT, commissioning, turnover, training.
• Own technical quality actions: Lead change controls and CAPAs, assess deviations, ensure hardware changes are implemented and closed.
• Drive reliability improvement: Use downtime and deviations to reduce failures and improve maintainability, safety, and compliance.
• Coordinate vendors and stakeholders: Develop scopes, assess vendor capability, collaborate with Operations, Quality, Validation, Metrology, HSE, Automation, Engineering, Procurement, Stores, and Finance.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Maintenance planning

Field support

Cross-functional leadership

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

CMMS/EAM

P&IDs & drawings

OEM technical packages

Job description

Job title:Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream

Location: Framingham, MA

About The Job

The Senior Equipment Engineer is the technical owner for an assigned portfolio of manufacturing, utility, facility, or laboratory equipment. This role improves equipment safety, compliance, availability, and lifecycle performance by combining hands-on troubleshooting with effective maintenance strategies, equipment changes, technical documentation, and cross-functional leadership.

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, youll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster.

About Sanofi

Were an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving peoples lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system and innovative pipeline enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve lives.

Main 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.

Key Deliverables

• Technically complete, schedule-ready work packages and maintenance master data.
• Risk-based PM programs, accurate equipment BOMs, and critical-spares strategies.
• Timely, technically sound closure of deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and engineering actions.
• Reduced repeat failures, emergency work, avoidable downtime, and obsolete-component exposure.
• Complete maintenance readiness and technical turnover for equipment changes and new assets.
• Accurate, traceable, and inspection-ready drawings, specifications, manuals, and records.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, SUT, or other cGMP manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of CMMS/EAM systems, equipment BOMs, work-order controls, and maintenance master data.
• Knowledge of reliability methods, including criticality, FMEA, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, bad-actor elimination, and lifecycle planning.
• Experience with P&IDs, electrical and mechanical drawings, instrumentation, controls interfaces, and OEM technical packages.
• PE, CMRP/CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management training, or related professional certification.

Why Choose Us?

Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.

Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably.

Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed.

Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges into real-world solutions.

Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition.

Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape whats next.

Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.