MSAT Process Engineer Purification

• Location: Geel

• Tijdelijke opdracht: 1 jaar

About the job

Our team:

Looking to launch your career at the cutting edge of healthcare? Join Sanofi for a chance to develop with mentoring and guidance from inspirational leaders while helping to make an impact on the lives of countless people worldwide. As Process Engineer Purification in our Manufacturing Science & Analytical Technology (MSAT) Protein Purification team, you’ll focus on the downstream part of the biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.

Leveraging strong scientific and technical knowledge, you will actively contribute to the technology transfer and commercial production of a new process at an external manufacturing partner (CMO) abroad. This position will involve frequent international travel and close collaboration with both internal stakeholders and the external partner to ensure a successful transfer and robust commercial manufacturing.

Sanofi is an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main responsibilities:

Starting from thorough scientific and technical knowledge, you your job will consist of manufacturing-scale activities related to:

• New Product Introductions. Facilitate the technology transfer of biological drug substance manufacturing processes from development laboratories or at-scale sending units to large-scale GMP manufacturing facilities. This includes ensuring documentation readiness for clinical and commercial production, as well as providing support during process performance qualification to successfully implement new processes at manufacturing scale.

• Process Improvements. Identify and lead process improvement initiatives, through deep process understanding and digital driven initiatives,  to increase process yield or robustness, and generate supportive data packages for their implementation at manufacturing scale.

• Commercial Production Support. Provide ongoing support for commercial manufacturing through activities such as data trending and monitoring, develop scientific and technical study protocols and reports to support significant process changes, and contribute to investigations and process/product impact assessments for significant manufacturing deviations.

About you

• Soft and technical skills:

  • You have specific experience in protein purification (on lab- and/or manufacturing scale);

  • You are flexible, willing to adapt to changing priorities and willing to learn at a rapid pace;

  • You are flexible and a strong communicator, who is able to connect, go in discussion and find compromise with people in other departments and sites;

  • You have an excellent analytical and problem-solving mindset, are accurate with the necessary eye for detail;

  • You have a strong technical background in terms of large-scale biotech manufacturing equipment;

  • You are familiar with various statistical and data trending techniques;

  • You have affinity with digital process monitoring systems (including handling of large online data sets) and data connectivity;

  • You like to work in a high performing team and consider yourself to be a good team player.

• Education: PhD or Master in Engineering or Life Sciences (or equivalent through experience)

• Languages: Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral. Dutch is a plus.

Why choose us?

• Contribute to the production of life-saving medications that improve patient outcomes worldwide;

• Engage with a global network of professionals and benefit from a culture that promotes teamwork and mutual respect;

• Supportive work environment that values employee wellbeing and possibility of remote work arrangements to support work-life balance;

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration with research and development, manufacturing and quality teams to bring new therapies to the market;

• Drive innovation and implementation of state-of-the-art technologies to enhance operational performance.