Head of Clean Utilities and Sustainability

  Job Title: Head of Clean Utilities and Sustainability

• 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 Responsibilities:

• Clean utility operations and maintenance: Ensure safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of clean utility systems, including applicable purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, process gases, and other GMP utility systems within the approved site asset boundary. 

• System ownership and state of control: Maintain current understanding of system performance, capacity, compliance, validated state, condition, lifecycle risk, recurring issues, documentation, and improvement priorities. Ensure timely escalation and risk-based interim controls when performance or compliance is challenged. 

• Sustainability strategy and Planet Care delivery: Lead the site cross-functional sustainability program and roadmap to deliver applicable Planet Care targets for carbon dioxide emissions, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity. Establish governance, workstreams, owners, milestones, performance reviews, and recovery plans.

• Safe work and HSE integration: Embed HSE requirements into utility operation and maintenance, including permits, lockout/tagout, energy isolation, confined space, hot work, line breaking, chemical handling, contractor safety, environmental controls, and post-work restoration. 

• Reliability and lifecycle management: Use criticality, system performance, failure history, condition data, deviations, root cause analysis, bad-actor management, and lifecycle plans to improve reliability, maintainability, resilience, redundancy, and business continuity. 

• Process improvement and operational excellence: Implement technical and process improvements that strengthen utility efficiency, safety, quality, availability, control strategy, operator effectiveness, and response to abnormal conditions. 

• Utility and sustainability budget management: Manage departmental budgets and forecasts for clean utilities, purchased utilities, service contracts, and sustainability initiatives, including electricity, natural gas, water, wastewater, and carbon-related programs. Maintain transparent commitments, accruals, forecasts, and cost controls.

• Conservation and cost improvement: Identify, assess, prioritize, and execute energy-efficiency, water-reduction, waste-minimization, heat-recovery, demand-management, and utility-optimization opportunities without compromising product quality, compliance, safety, or system resilience. 

• People leadership: Determine organization design, staffing strategy, role clarity, talent selection, objective setting, performance management, succession planning, technical capability, and employee development for the Clean Utilities and Sustainability organization. 

• Contractor and vendor management: Select and govern contractors, original equipment manufacturers, utilities providers, consultants, and service partners for safety, compliance, technical capability, quality, delivery, continuity, performance, and cost. 

• Project and change support: Provide clean utility and sustainability requirements for site master planning, capital projects, design reviews, equipment and process changes, commissioning and qualification, turnover, spares, maintenance strategies, metering, documentation, training, and operational readiness. 

• Compliance and inspection readiness: Maintain inspection-ready utility programs, accurate records, data integrity, approved procedures, validated system controls, and effective response to deviations, investigations, CAPAs, audits, and health authority inspections. 

• Shutdown and 24/7 operational support: Lead utility support for planned shutdowns, outages, tie-ins, start-up, restoration, emergency conditions, and manufacturing escalations. Verify contingency controls, testing, communication, and safe return to service. 

• Performance management: Define and routinely review KPIs for utility availability, excursions, alarm response, preventive maintenance and calibration completion, schedule adherence, repeat failures, energy intensity, water intensity, greenhouse-gas performance, waste diversion, project delivery, budget adherence, and realized savings. 

Key involvement in Decision Making process:

• People management: Talent selection, organization sizing, work allocation, performance management, capability building, succession planning, and development within approved headcount and budget. 

• Sustainability roadmap: Site priorities, workstreams, milestones, governance, performance reviews, and recovery actions for delivery of applicable Planet Care targets. 

• Clean utility operating strategy: Operating, maintenance, monitoring, alarm-response, escalation, and lifecycle approaches within approved procedures, quality systems, budgets, and delegated authority. 

• Contractors and vendors: Technical selection and performance decisions within procurement policy, approved budgets, service requirements, and delegated authority. 

• Clean utility safety, compliance, and availability: Sustained state of control, reliable supply to manufacturing, safe execution, proactive risk management, and timely escalation of utility threats. 

• Sustainability performance and reporting: Accurate performance data, transparent forecasts, initiative delivery, risk escalation, and progress against carbon, energy, water, waste, and biodiversity commitments. 

• Clean utility and sustainability project input: Complete and timely requirements for capacity, redundancy, efficiency, metering, design review, commissioning, qualification, turnover, spares, documentation, and training. 

• Reliability / maintainability / HSE improvements: Identification, prioritization, sponsorship, and implementation of improvements supported by system risk, performance, and lifecycle data. 

• Utility and sustainability cost management: Budget planning, consumption forecasting, commitments, accruals, tariff and demand awareness, cost controls, savings validation, and transparent trade-off recommendations. 

• Manufacturing demand and outage priorities: Be informed of production schedules, campaign changes, shutdown scope, utility demand changes, equipment access constraints, and recovery priorities. 

• Quality and regulatory risk: Be informed of deviations, CAPAs, audit observations, inspection commitments, data-integrity concerns, and regulatory changes affecting utility systems. 

• Capital and site-master-plan changes: Be informed of approved projects, new processes, capacity changes, equipment obsolescence, commissioning schedules, and turnover plans affecting utility load or sustainability performance.

• Business, financial, and supply risk: Be informed of budget changes, energy-market or utility-supply constraints, vendor continuity concerns, critical spares, and business-continuity risks. 

• Performance escalation: Be informed of critical alarms, excursions, outages, missed critical work, repeated failures, environmental events, target gaps, or other conditions requiring leadership action. 

About You:

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, Environmental, Biomedical, or related), or in Chemistry, Environmental Science, Life Sciences, or a related technical or scientific discipline.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in utilities, facilities, engineering, reliability, energy, environmental sustainability, or technical operations, with significant leadership responsibility in a complex GMP-regulated environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical experience managing clean and industrial utilities in complex manufacturing environments, with working knowledge of GMP utility design, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and lifecycle management. 

• Demonstrated experience with energy and environmental management systems, programs, performance reporting, and conservation projects.

• 5+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical industry.

• Demonstrated people leadership, contractor management, financial stewardship, and cross-functional program leadership. 

• Working knowledge of cGMP, data integrity, change control, deviations and CAPAs, commissioning and qualification, maintenance work management, permits, energy isolation, and LOTO. 

• Ability to communicate technical risk, sustainability performance, priorities, decisions, and investment needs clearly to technical teams and site leadership. 

• Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated manufacturing, including utility support for biologics or single-use manufacturing operations. 

• Experience with clean utilities such as purified water, water-for-injection, clean steam, process gases, and associated generation, storage, distribution, sanitization, monitoring, and control systems. 

• Knowledge of industrial utilities, including electrical distribution, natural gas, steam, chilled water, cooling water, compressed air, HVAC interfaces, wastewater, and utility metering. 

• Experience developing decarbonization, energy, water, waste, or biodiversity roadmaps and delivering projects from feasibility through benefits verification. 

• Experience with CMMS/EAM, BMS, SCADA or automation platforms, historian and continuous-monitoring systems, utility data analytics, and KPI development. 

• Professional Engineer licensure, Certified Energy Manager, Certified Energy Auditor, PMP, Lean/Six Sigma, ISO 50001 or ISO 14001 experience, or an equivalent professional credential. 

Expected Skills:

• Strategic thinking and utility lifecycle planning 

• Clean utility technical leadership 

• cGMP compliance and inspection readiness 

• Safety and environmental compliance 

• Energy, water, carbon, waste, and biodiversity management 

• Reliability, maintainability, and business continuity 

• Financial, budget, and utility-cost management 

• Project and change management 

• Data analysis, metering, KPI governance, and performance reporting 

• People leadership, coaching, and talent development 

• Cross-functional influence and executive communication 

• Results orientation and continuous improvement 

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.

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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Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive 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.

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

$148,500.00 - $214,500.00

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.