Head of Maintenance- Support Services
Sanofi · Framingham, MA
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $149k–$215k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Industry
- Pharma & life sciences
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level reliability role at Sanofi (pharma & life sciences) in Framingham, MA.
- They ask for
- 10+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Root cause, FMEA, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Automation
- Base pay
- $149k–$215k
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Massachusetts: typical posted base $125k–$165k. This one lists $149k–$215k.
Median of the low and high ends of 15 live postings that list pay, out of 25 reliability engineer openings in Massachusetts, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 24 other live reliability postings in Massachusetts.
- Base pay
- About 34% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (10+ vs 7+)
Typical $121k–$151k, from 12 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 7+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 52%
- ✓ Automation 44%
- ✓ FMEA 32%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 32%
- ✓ New product launch 32%
- Robotics 32%
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This plant: Sanofi in Framingham
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Responsibilities
- ◆Maintenance Execution: Lead preventive, corrective, condition-based maintenance, calibration, and periodic qualification. Maintain schedule compliance, backlog control, resource alignment, and timely risk escalation.
- ◆Safety and Compliance: Ensure maintenance activities comply with HSE, cGMP, data-integrity, permit, LOTO, energy-isolation, contractor-safety, and documentation requirements. Support deviations, CAPAs, audits, and regulatory inspections.
- ◆Reliability and Operational Support: Improve asset reliability and lifecycle performance through failure analysis, equipment criticality, condition monitoring, root cause analysis, and bad-actor elimination. Minimize maintenance-related APU manufacturing downtime.
- ◆Work and Contractor Management: Own maintenance workflows from work intake through closure. Manage contractors and vendors for safety, technical capability, quality, delivery, performance, and cost.
- ◆Financial and People Leadership: Manage staffing, employee development, budgets, forecasts, service contracts, overtime, materials, and cost improvements without compromising safety, compliance, or reliability.
- ◆Projects and Shutdowns: Provide maintainability
requirements
for projects, commissioning, qualification, turnover, and equipment changes. Lead maintenance support for shutdowns, outages, start-ups, emergencies, and return-to-service.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in engineering, maintenance management, life sciences, or a related field
- ✓10+ years of relevant experience, including 5+ years leading technical teams in regulated manufacturing.
- ✓Demonstrated experience in maintenance execution, reliability, calibration, contractor management, budgeting, and shutdown support.
- ✓Working knowledge of cGMP, data integrity, deviations, CAPAs, CMMS/EAM, safe-work permits, and LOTO.
- ✓Strong communication, decision-making, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical manufacturing experience, including single-use technologies.
- ✓Knowledge of FMEA, root cause analysis, criticality assessment, condition monitoring, and lifecycle planning.
- ✓Professional certification such as PE, CMRP, CRL, PMP, CEM, or Lean Six Sigma.
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.
- ✓Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply.
- ✓Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation at speed and scale
- ✓Transform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.
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Job Title: Head of Maintenance- Support Services
- •Location: Framingham, MA
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.
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
Decision Authority
- •Maintenance staffing, organization design, work allocation, and performance management within approved budgets.
- •Maintenance work-management processes and priorities.
- •Contractor and vendor selection within delegated authority.
Accountable For
- •Timely completion of maintenance, calibration, and qualification activities.
- •Maintenance HSE controls and regulatory compliance.
- •Equipment reliability and maintenance-related APU downtime.
- •Maintenance budget, contractor performance, and project maintainability.
- •Inspection readiness and effective risk escalation.
Informed Of
- •Production schedules, shutdowns, and equipment-access constraints.
- •Deviations, CAPAs, audit findings, and regulatory commitments.
- •Capital projects, equipment changes, and obsolescence risks.
- •Budget constraints, critical-spare shortages, significant failures, and safety events.
Key Interfaces
Operations; Quality, Validation and Metrology; HSE; Engineering, Projects and Automation; Procurement and Finance; and the Head of Site Engineering & Maintenance.
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