About the role
As a Contamination Control Specialist within the Sterility Assurance and Contamination Control team at our Vitry-sur-Seine production site, you will be a key player in managing biocontamination risk and will directly contribute to the site's quality and regulatory compliance. Ready to get started?
Join a team committed to manufacturing biotechnological products (monoclonal antibodies) that protect and treat millions of patients worldwide. You will help ensure operational excellence and the safety of products manufactured on site.
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, allow 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
• Act as the site's technical reference for contamination control procedures within your area of expertise
• Conduct contamination control risk assessments, including when new products are introduced into the site's production facilities
• Oversee site activities and performance for contamination control systems (controlled atmosphere areas, critical utilities, pest control)
• Lead investigations following contamination control failures and propose corrective and preventive actions
• Maintain a visible presence on the shop floor (Gemba) to supervise practices, identify deviations from procedures, and provide feedback to operational teams
• Analyze contamination control monitoring data and trends and propose areas for improvement
• Represent the site for contamination control during regulatory audits and inspections, and contribute to international expert communities to share and deploy best practices across the network
About you
Experience:
Successful experience in contamination control, sterility assurance, industrial microbiology, or quality assurance at a pharmaceutical or biotechnology production site is required, ideally including experience with regulatory inspections.
Technical and interpersonal skills:
Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical microbiology and good manufacturing practices, proficiency in risk analysis and in deviation management and corrective and preventive actions, rigor, teamwork, communication skills, leadership
Education:
Higher science degree (Bac+5) in microbiology, biology, biotechnology, pharmacy, or quality engineering, or equivalent experience
Languages:
Fluent English
Fluent French required
Why choose us?
• Join a committed team at the Vitry-sur-Seine site, at the heart of activities with high visibility on the site's quality and compliance challenges.
• Build your future with the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning to always stay ahead.
• Work in a committed company where your voice matters and where your work improves the lives of millions of people.
• Thrive in inclusive and flexible environments that support your personal and professional well-being.
• Attractive compensation, along with employee benefits.
• Depending on your site, access to a company restaurant with a contribution from Sanofi.
Always Progressing. 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 accomplish 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, color, 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: €48,000.00 - €64,000
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.