Process Engineer

Job description

Job Title

Process Engineer

About the Opportunity

The Process Engineer works in the MSAT/Technical Services department as a technical leader providing support to technology transfers and Commercial Operations at the Waterford Facility and within the network.

About Sanofi Business Unit

The multiple national award-winning Sanofi Waterford biopharmaceutical and medical device campus is located in Waterford on Ireland's southeast coast. Established in 2001 and now with more than 700 employees, the site has seen more than €600m invested in state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology. Diversification continues to bring new products to Waterford and the expanded site portfolio continues to create new opportunities.

Key responsibilities

As part of Technology Transfer

·  Provide process and technical leadership to cross functional teams for tech transfer programs through scale up, for clinical & commercial product transfers
·  Provide process engineering leadership for tech transfer & product lifecycle management
·  Develop strategies for process development / characterisation
·  Provide engineering governance for established commercial products for new process & technology improvements
·  Lead product investigations with strong understanding of compliance and cGMP, strong engineering judgement and leadership in decision making
·  The primary objective is to ensure that Sanofi products are manufactured to highest standard through effective product and process management

About You

To excel in this role you will need to be a highly motivated individual to function as a key member of the MSAT group

Essential requirements:

·  A minimum of a B.Sc ., B.E. M.Eng. Degree in Engineering or equivalent
·  Demonstrated experience in identifying and resolving complex technical issues
·  Strong technical writing and communication skills
·  Solid working knowledge of cGMP's, GDP, GLP etc.
·  2 – 5 years in a cGMP biologics or pharmaceutical manufacturing setting

or

In lieu of experience equivalent M.Sc. experience

It would be advantageous to have (not essential):

·  M.Sc. in the relevant field would be advantageous
·  Experience with aseptic fill finish technology platforms such as formulation, sterilisation, lyophilisation, isolators, filling machines
·  Experience in Technology Transfers
·  Good knowledge of statistical techniques in the use of problem-solving data analysis
·  Understanding of the key quality attributes and influencers of physical and chemical stability of biologics based drug products

What Sanofi can offer you

·  A role where you are instrumental to creating best practice and as the organisation grows, you can too
·  We offer a generous package including flexible benefits, and are committed to helping you have a healthy work-life balance throughout your career with us
·  Leadership opportunity
·  A newly refurbished gym is available onsite
·  You will be based in our Waterford site which is accessible from M9
·  Parking available onsite
·  This is a full time role and we support flexible working

About Sanofi

Empower Life Everyday

At Sanofi we work across human health from vaccines to rare diseases, and consumer healthcare. This creates opportunities to work across different areas to build a diverse and exciting career. Sanofi has the capabilities and resources to support your aspirations to fulfill your ambitions and be the best you can be.

Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top 3 innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we're not there to try to solve everybody's problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference.

The values we are live by are teamwork, courage, respect and integrity

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.