Utilities Engineer

Job Title: Utilities Energy

• Location: Framingham, MA

About The Job:

The Utilities Engineer serves as technical owner and subject-matter expert for critical utility and facility systems supporting the MA Bio Campus. Systems may include HVAC, high-purity water, clean and plant steam, compressed air and gases, chilled and heating water, building automation interfaces, and related campus infrastructure.

Working with limited supervision, you will ensure assigned systems remain safe, compliant, reliable, capable, and in a validated state of control. You will support manufacturing operations, maintenance, investigations, capital projects, shutdowns, commissioning, qualification, and regulatory inspections.

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.

Main Responsibilities:

• Own the technical performance, capacity, reliability, compliance, and lifecycle strategy for assigned utility systems.
• Monitor system performance, alarms, trends, sampling results, energy consumption, maintenance history, and emerging risks.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and provide evidence-based assessments for failures, excursions, deviations, recurring alarms, and manufacturing interruptions.
• Perform or review engineering calculations, equipment sizing, capacity evaluations, design reviews, and technical risk assessments.
• Define maintenance requirements, acceptance criteria, post-maintenance testing, condition-monitoring activities, and critical-spare strategies.
• Develop lifecycle plans and recommendations addressing equipment condition, obsolescence, redundancy, vendor support, and business-continuity risks.
• Lead or support utility projects and modifications from requirements and design through implementation, testing, qualification, and turnover.
• Own or support deviations, CAPAs, change controls, investigations, and effectiveness checks.
• Maintain accurate, current, and inspection-ready drawings, specifications, calculations, system descriptions, and lifecycle records.
• Support planned shutdowns, utility outages, start-ups, emergency response, restoration, and system return-to-service.
• Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, energy efficiency, water consumption, sustainability, and lifecycle cost.
• Manage technical vendors and provide guidance and mentoring to engineers and technical personnel.
  

Key Accountabilities:

• Health, capacity, reliability, compliance, and lifecycle management of assigned systems
• Manufacturing downtime attributable to the assigned equipment portfolio
• Timely technical troubleshooting, risk assessment, and escalation
• Successful delivery and turnover of assigned modifications and projects
• Accurate deviation assessments, change controls, CAPAs, and technical documentation
• Effective shutdown, contingency, restoration, and return-to-service planning
  
  

About You:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, chemical, electrical, environmental, or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 3 years of engineering experience supporting utility, facility, manufacturing, or process systems.
• Experience working in a regulated environment with knowledge of cGMP, OSHA, environmental, and engineering requirements.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more utility areas, such as HVAC, high-purity water, clean steam, compressed gases, plant steam, chilled water, or heating water.
• Experience with engineering calculations, equipment sizing, troubleshooting, design reviews, project execution, and equipment lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of deviations, CAPAs, change control, commissioning, qualification, and maintenance strategies.
• Strong problem-solving, technical-writing, project-management, collaboration, and communication skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three -Five or more years supporting pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or similarly regulated manufacturing.
• Experience with campus utilities, classified-space HVAC, high-purity water and steam, energy management, or business-continuity planning.
• Familiarity with BMS, EMS, DCS/PLC interfaces, CMMS, data historians, and engineering drawing systems.
• Knowledge of applicable ASME, NFPA, OSHA, EPA, ISPE, ASHRAE, and Good Engineering Practice standards.
• Professional Engineer, Certified Energy Manager, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable certification.

Working Conditions:

• Ability to access manufacturing, controlled, mechanical, utility, roof, and interstitial areas in accordance with safety and gowning requirements.
• Availability to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation, including planned shutdowns, outages, start-ups, emergencies, and restoration activities as needed.

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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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.

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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:

$100.500,00 - $145.166,66

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.