Job title: Head of Engineering and Maintenance
- Location: Marcy L'Étoile (69)
- Contract type: CDI (permanent contract)
About the role
As Head of Engineering and Maintenance within our site leadership team, you will lead a department of more than 200 people and ensure that our maintenance, engineering, utilities and qualification activities support the safe, compliant and efficient supply of medicines and vaccines for patients. Ready to get started?
Join a global network that enables Sanofi to deliver in a seamless, targeted and large-scale way. Within Manufacturing & Supply, you will help reinvent how life-changing treatments reach people around the world, faster.
About Sanofi
We are a biopharmaceutical company focused on R&D and powered by AI, committed to improving people's lives and delivering strong growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system, together with our innovative pipeline, allows us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people worldwide. Together, we pursue the miracles of science to improve people's lives.
Main responsibilities:
- Lead the Engineering and Maintenance department (more than 200 employees, 8 direct managers) covering maintenance, automation and calibration, engineering, utilities, qualification and validation, shared services and the Planet Care programme, while managing a CAPEX portfolio of approximately €50 M.
- Build a strong health, safety and environment culture: be present on the ground with managers and technicians, and drive the plan to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption.
- Ensure full quality and regulatory compliance (GMP), reduce deviations, ensure root cause analyses are carried out and corrective actions implemented, and keep team members up to date on quality training.
- Ensure preventive and corrective maintenance of facilities and equipment, deploy best maintenance practices (reliability engineering, predictive technologies), and ensure calibration, technical inspections, and utilities production and distribution across the entire site.
- Deliver engineering projects on time and within budget, maintain a master plan for each area, and ensure qualification and validation activities are carried out in a compliant and efficient manner.
- Define and manage budgets with a cost-control approach, prioritise workload with end users, and ensure the efficient provision of shared services (catering, cleaning, office spaces).
- Develop and support your teams, recognise talent, lead organisational change and act as a change agent to increase managerial presence on the ground. Contribute as a key member of the site leadership team and work with Global Engineering and other sites to align programmes and share best practices.
What we offer
A fixed salary paid over 12 months, complemented by short-term variable pay and collective variable pay based on Sanofi Group results.
Because taking care of our employees is also part of our mission:
- Benefits and well-being: quality health coverage, extended maternity/parental leave (18/14 weeks), enhanced support in case of illness, teleconsultation and second medical opinion covered by Sanofi, as well as numerous well-being programmes.
- Work-life balance: 31 days of paid leave + RTT days depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days per week.
- Transport: public transport costs covered up to 80%.
- Savings and retirement: Group Savings Plan and PERCOL with employer matching, and PERO.
- Professional development: internal and international mobility opportunities, learning and development offers.
- And more: platforms dedicated to peer recognition and service exchanges between Sanofi employees (carpooling, home exchanges, etc.), numerous works council (CSE) benefits...
About you
Experience:
- More than 15 years of experience in engineering, maintenance and manufacturing in a large-scale biotech or pharmaceutical environment, including leading large teams.
- Experience in a Global role would be an advantage.
Technical and behavioural skills:
- In-depth knowledge of engineering and maintenance principles applied to pharmaceutical manufacturing.
- Strong project management skills to plan, steer and track large projects.
- Good knowledge of pharmaceutical regulations (GMP, FDA standards), with a strong quality and HSE culture, and comfort collaborating with external contractors.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead change, unite teams and develop people.
- Excellent stakeholder management.
Education:
- Master's-level scientific degree (Bac+5) or equivalent experience.
Languages:
- Working fluency in French and English.
Why choose us?
- Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery, with cutting-edge technologies and resilient global supply.
- Aim for leading performance through digital, data and AI, with speed and at scale.
- Take on high-impact responsibilities: join the site leadership team, lead a team of more than 200 people and €50 M of investments, with a long-term vision.
- Develop new skills and grow in an environment that values growth. This role can be a real springboard for your career.
- Work with Global Engineering to build a world-class maintenance and engineering function, in an organisation that invests in technology and sustainability.
Always Progress . Discover 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 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.
#LI-FRA
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.
Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!
The salary range for this position is: €90,400.00 - €120,533
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.