Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream

Job Title : Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream • Location: Framingham, MA   About the Job The Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream 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, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster.   About Sanofi: We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s 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. • At least 3 years of engineering experience supporting manufacturing, facilities, utilities, laboratories, or