About the role
As a Sustainability and Energy Performance Engineer within our Sustainability & Clean Utilities team, you will lead the environmental and energy strategy of the Le Trait industrial site, ensuring compliance with ISO 50001 and ISO 46001 standards, while developing innovative programs to reduce our carbon footprint, optimize our energy and water consumption, and support Sanofi's sustainable transition. Ready to get started?
Based at our Le Trait industrial site, you will join the Sustainability & Clean Utilities team within the Operations function. You will play a key role in the site's environmental performance, working with technical teams, HSE, Finance and Purchasing, while actively contributing to the network of Sustainability correspondents across Sanofi's industrial sites.
About Sanofi
Sanofi is a biopharmaceutical company that innovates in R&D and leverages AI at scale to improve people's lives and create long-term growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system, and our innovative pipeline, enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we pursue the miracles of science to improve people's lives.
Key responsibilities
- Driving ISO compliance and performance: Manage the ISO 50001 standard and build ISO 46001 at the site, ensuring rigorous monitoring of energy, water and carbon indicators.
- Developing and optimizing the metering plan: Implement and improve measurement and consumption tracking systems to ensure the reliability of performance data.
- Coordinating sustainable performance programs: Lead the site's energy, water and carbon initiatives, identifying and deploying concrete environmental efficiency projects.
- Ensuring reporting and data reliability: Oversee the collection and consolidation of data for internal tools (Resource Advisor, Ultivision) and ensure the quality of regulatory and internal reporting.
- Regulatory monitoring and compliance: Maintain active monitoring of regulatory developments in environment and energy, and ensure the site's practices remain compliant.
- Raising awareness and engaging teams: Develop communication and awareness programs to promote a culture of sustainability among employees and management.
- Representing the site during audits: Serve as backup for the Head of Clean Utilities & Sustainability and represent the site during HSE, ISO 50001 and certain quality inspection audits.
What we offer
A fixed salary over 12 months, plus profit-sharing and incentive schemes based on Sanofi Group results.
Because taking care of our employees is also our mission: 31 days of paid leave + RTT days depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days per week, high-quality supplementary health insurance, public transport coverage up to 80%; maternity leave (18 weeks) and adoption leave (14 weeks), savings plan and pension plans with employer contributions, CSE benefits, internal and international mobility opportunities, a customizable training offer to support you throughout your career, and many other benefits to discover here.
About you
Experience:
You have proven experience in energy, thermal or industrial environment fields, ideally in a pharmaceutical or regulated industrial context.
Technical and interpersonal skills:
- Expertise in thermal engineering, thermodynamics and industrial electricity
- Good knowledge of pharmaceutical and industrial utilities (purified water, steam, compressed air)
- Mastery of ISO 50001 standards and energy management systems
- Skills in cross-functional management and coordination of multi-team projects
- Strong synthesis skills, autonomy, responsiveness and commitment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Curiosity, eagerness to learn and to propose innovative solutions
Education:
Engineering degree in energy, thermal engineering, process engineering or equivalent.
Languages:
Good level of English (B2 minimum) to communicate with international teams and participate in the global Sustainability network.
Why choose us?
- Concrete impact on the sustainable transition: Contribute directly to reducing Sanofi's environmental footprint and achieving our Net Zero goals.
- Cutting-edge pharmaceutical industrial environment: Work on an industrial site with high-technology utilities and processes.
- International network and collaboration: Join a network of Sustainability correspondents across Sanofi's industrial sites worldwide.
- Autonomy and responsibility: Manage your projects with full autonomy, with real initiative and room for innovation.
- Continuous training and development: Benefit from training and career development opportunities within a leading global biopharmaceutical group.
- Work-life balance: Enjoy remote work, RTT days and generous social benefits.
- Committed company culture: Join a company that places sustainability, innovation and employee well-being at the heart of its strategy.
Always Progressing. Discovering the Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and enter a new era of science – where your journey can be as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you so that you can go further, accelerate your thinking and achieve what has never been done before. You will help push boundaries, challenge conventions and design smarter solutions for the communities we serve. Ready to pursue the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's pursue progress and discover the extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we believe in equal opportunity, without distinction of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other criterion protected by law.
Pursue progress, discover extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn't happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let's be those people.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.
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The salary range for this position is: €42,400.00 - €56,533
Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.