Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream

Sanofi · Framingham, MA

Level: Senior
Team: Process
Base pay: $101k–$145k
Degree: Required
Experience asked: 3+ years
Industry: Pharma & life sciences
Posted: 3 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A senior process role at Sanofi (pharma & life sciences) in Framingham, MA. PE, CMRP/CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management training, or related professional certification.

They ask for: 3+ years · degree required
Tools it names: Lean, Six Sigma, Root cause, FMEA, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Automation
Base pay: $101k–$145k
Openings: 2 with this title at this site

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From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026

Process Engineer roles in Massachusetts: typical posted base $105k–$140k. This one lists $101k–$145k.

Median of the low and high ends of 16 live postings that list pay, out of 33 process engineer openings in Massachusetts, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

Massachusetts plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →

How this role compares

Against 32 other live process postings in Massachusetts.

Base pay: In line with similar roles
Experience asked: Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)

Skills these teams ask for most

✓ Root cause 48%
✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 39%
✓ Lean 36%
✓ Six Sigma 24%
SPC 24%
New product launch 21%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

It asks for 3+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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This plant: Sanofi in Framingham

5 other open roles at this site.

Head of Maintenance- Support Services · Reliability · Director+
Head of Maintenance - Biologics · Reliability · Director+
Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Upstream · Process · Senior
Contamination Control Specialist · Controls · Specialist
Area Maintenance Specialist · Reliability · Specialist

Full description from SanofiAs posted on their careers site.Show

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.

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 complex process equipment in a regulated or high-reliability environment.
✓Demonstrated equipment troubleshooting capability using drawings, manuals, data, failure history, and structured root-cause methods.
✓Experience developing job plans, PM tasks, technical specifications, spare-parts recommendations, or maintenance strategies.
✓Experience supporting equipment modifications, commissioning, qualification, change control, deviations, or CAPAs.
✓Ability to work effectively in the field and communicate technical risk and recommendations to technical teams and leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

✓Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, medical-device, SUT, or other cGMP manufacturing.
✓Working knowledge of CMMS/EAM systems, equipment BOMs, work-order controls, and maintenance master data.
✓Knowledge of reliability methods, including criticality, FMEA, root cause analysis, condition monitoring, bad-actor elimination, and lifecycle planning.
✓Experience with P&IDs, electrical and mechanical drawings, instrumentation, controls interfaces, and OEM technical packages.
✓PE, CMRP/CRL, Lean/Six Sigma, project-management training, or related professional certification.

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Job Title: Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream

Location: Framingham, MA

About the job

The Senior Equipment Process Engineer- Downstream 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 people’s lives.

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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

Basis

Why Choose Us

•Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
•Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
•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.
•Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation – at speed and scale.
•Grow, thrive, and make an impact in a workplace that empowers you to bring your best self every day, with pride.