Automation Engineer

Job Title: Automation Engineer

• Location: Framingham, MA

About the Job

Key Responsibilities may differ among employees with same job title and may change over time in accordance with business needs.

This position is responsible for providing automation expertise for small-to-medium projects. These projects include continuous improvement, retrofit, and large capital investments to optimize manufacturing and supporting operations. This person will design, architect, troubleshoot, and deliver future enhancements for automation related systems.

The Automation Engineer will be responsible for using expertise to design innovative solutions. These solutions span the areas of automation systems, data historians, IoT devices, etc. with a key focus on pushing new boundaries of Digital 4.0. The person will be responsible for maintaining and providing technical support, ensuring availability of the automation systems for multiple manufacturing facilities.

 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

Leadership:

• Providing leadership and direction to junior team members while embodying the principles of the Sanofi Global Leadership Model

• Leading automation related projects

• Managing contractors for staff augmentation or project roles

• Ensuring timely issue escalation to senior management and cross-functional support teams

• Partnering with support teams i.e., Manufacturing, Quality, etc to ensure deliverables are completed to meet to production schedules

• Mentoring junior automation engineers to ensure that the team applies compliant, efficient solutions to projects

Automation:

• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of process automation related design challenges. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives

• Responsible for ensuring process equipment automation are available to support operations schedule requirements

• Managing medium-to-large departmental projects and ensuring that the appropriate controls, approvals, and validation requirements are implemented

• Integrate systems and data from a variety of skidded systems, analytical equipment, and process/building control systems

• Developing robust solutions that have minimal downtime and ensure data integrity

• Lead development of automation standards

Training /Deviations /Compliance/Safety:

• Complying with Sanofi requirements for training

• Ensuring Inspection Readiness of assigned areas

• Overseeing completion of investigations and deviations

• Ensuring all assigned deviations and CAPA’s are closed in a timely manner

• Ensuring that Automation documentation is compliant and inspection ready

• Participating in inspections conducted by external regulators

• Complying with requirements from Genzyme’s Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements

Continuous Improvement:

• Working collaboratively with inter-department and cross-functional teams to lead necessary changes in a timely and productive manner

• Partnering with Manufacturing to troubleshoot and drive resolution of process issues and proactively driving projects to improve manufacturing process

• Partnering with Operational Excellence to drive process improvements through Kaizens, Kanban, 5S and VSM

Leadership Qualifications:

• This position does not have any direct reports but might have direct reports of more junior engineers in the future

About You
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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or any technological field and 5+ years of experience

• OR Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience

• Hands-on programming experience with real-time manufacturing automation and control systems (such as DeltaV, PLCs, PI, Werum PAS-X, etc.)

• Hands-on technical experience with troubleshooting and root cause analysis for manufacturing control systems, specifically DeltaV

• Hands-on technical experience with providing support for automated manufacturing operations, specifically DeltaV

• Demonstrated knowledge of bus technologies and Instrumentation

• Demonstrated knowledge of validation requirements for control systems in CGMP and/or ASTM environments

• Experience with multiple computerized systems (Ignition, Werum PAS-X, PI, etc.)

• Experience with SCADA/PLC systems such as Rockwell Factory Talk/RSLogix, Honeywell

• Understanding of network infrastructure

• Experience with systems/network/validation, preferable in the chemical, pharmaceutical, foods, or other process industries is preferred

• Experienced in establishment of safe practices in a cGMP environment.

• Proficient working with computer programs/applications such as Windows, VBA, MS Office applications, etc.

• Proven technical and analytical skills to quickly resolve automation system issues

• Experience delivering solutions based on Digital 4.0

• Experience with SaaS solutions

• Experience with IoT solution and edge devices

Special Working Conditions:

• Required manufacturing operations support on a rotating “on call” 24/7 basis

• Requires working in an industrial manufacturing environment including gowning

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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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.