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**Job Title:** Reliability and Methods Engineer

**Location:** Swiftwater, PA

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

The Reliability & Methods Engineer is responsible of optimizing and implementing Preventive and Predictive Maintenance of process equipment in order to achieve the right maintenance strategy to support the business without compromising safety or compliance. The role is expected to be able to identify issues or needs and initiates projects or programs to address them. The candidate shall be able to evaluate minor capital project requests and lead the implementation of the project withing site compliance requirements. The individual works collaboratively to complete assignments and oversees the successful completion of tasks. Using solid analytical skills, the incumbent must be able to recognize problems of moderate scope and complexity, and independently, develop potential solutions and courses of action. This individual represents the work group on multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams and uses established relationships to influence and lead teams and stakeholders with fact-based, business value knowledge

The Reliability & Method Manager will be responsible of the Formulation Filling Inspection and Packaging (FFIP) operations process equipment & Facilities. The incumbent will oversee, track and troubleshoot daily equipment failures and propose corrective actions in coordination with maintenance team. This position will develop and maintain a strategic equipment Lifecycle master plan to ensure process equipment, parts and technology replacement are proactively planned and implemented.

The candidate must possess knowledge of equipment lifecycle analysis, predictive and preventative maintenance strategies for equipment including Formulation Tanks, Autoclaves, Filling lines, Inspection machines, Packaging lines, Utilities and Facilities.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

Overall plant reliability (equipment, utilities, and facilities)

+ Through individual contribution and leading teams, utilize RCM tools, the CMMS, other historical data, predictive technologies, and industry best practices to determine and implement optimum equipment performance, maintenance strategies, and work processes. This includes equipment definition/hierarchy, criticality of equipment, maintenance strategydevelopment, and spare parts.

Monitoring of M&R value, performance, and cost effectiveness

+ Liaison with the Engineering department where it will be required to review all new projects for long term maintenance needs. This will include such things as equipment, parts usage, (both manufacturer/model and application), maintenance access, training assessment needs, installation correlation to design (or the subsequent documentation with as built drawings and commissioning), spare parts recommendation, preventative maintenance requirements (along with the need for any special tooling and labor requirements).

Maintenance strategy and continuous optimization

+ Key stakeholder for the life-cycle management of industrial assets. This includes being the Maintenance liaison for equipment/system modifications and Preventative Maintenance (PM) review/modification, to improve operation, uptime, efficiency, etc., or to decrease parts usage, specific breakdown type, labor hours and equipment cost of operation

+ Identification and prioritization of RE and CI initiatives

Reliability technology (PdM, data analytics, digital WO)

+ Active participation in the implementation of PdM innovation technologies with cross functional groups. Perform statistical analysis with data mining tools such as OSI PI or SEEQ.

+ Root cause analysis and corrective actions for breakdowns

Spare parts inventory optimization (criticality, stocking, FE)

Related KPIs & Metrics

+ Equipment & facility reliability (including financial impacts)

+ Standard reliability engineering metrics (MTBF, bad actors, OOT)

+ Rate of deviations and discards with reliability root causes

+ Reduction in reactive/emergency corrective work orders

+ Spare parts inventory metrics

About You

Education & Experience & Certification

+ Technical Expertise: knowledge of engineering & maintenance principles in a manufacturing environment. Pharmaceutical manufacturing knowledge preferred but not required. Knowledge of industrial maintenance methodologies.

+ Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with pharmaceutical industry regulations, including GMP and FDA standards preferred but not required.

+ Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to address technical issues.

+ Experience with RE tools (FMEA, RCA, PM optimization)

+ Minimum B.S., Engineering Degree and/or Equivalent Science/Technical Degree with experience relevant to life sciences and/or vaccines manufacturing, or with appropriate supplemental industrial experience. In lieu of technical degree, 10+ years of experience in manufacturing maintenance.

+ Minimum 3 years’ experience in Manufacturing.

Why Choose Us?

+ Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

+ Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

+ Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

+ Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) !

_US and Puerto Rico Residents Only_

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

_North America Applicants Only_

The salary range for this position is:

$74,250.00 - $123,750.00

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK (https://benefits.sanofiusallwell.com/fleet/public/index/ba511bf8-5c32-4828-9861-ab985fffab90/?cid=sanofi) .

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Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo)

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.

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