Process Engineer

• Contract: Type FTC 23 Month

About Waterford

For more than 20 years, our Waterford team has continued to grow and diversify to serve patients around the world. Today, a team of almost 800 work together at a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical and medical device campus. Recognised through multiple local and national awards, Sanofi Waterford offers flexible working and access to a world of opportunities to grow your career at one location. As well as attractive benefits, the team enjoy access to an onsite gym and medical centre that underpin a strong commitment to health and wellbeing.

About the job

Reporting to the Team Lead, you will play an integral role within the Product Supply Unit’s team, ensuring reliable supply of syringe and vial products to our patients globally.

The Product Supply APU is currently expanding and consists of multiple platforms for the PFS inspection, assembly, labelling, cartoning, of autoinjectors and prefilled syringes and vials. The platforms range from manual processes through to high-speed, high volume automated production lines.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide process engineering support to the Product Supply APU.
• Support delivery of continuous improvement projects to existing equipment.
• Work closely with various departments, such as MSAT, Technical Development, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain.
• Lead and coordinate elements of an automated inspection project and contribute to process engineering activities related to the development of new and existing manufacturing capacity.
• Utilisation of knowledge gained from existing manufacturing technologies to aid in the development of new technologies with the goal of implementing higher output and yield.
• Ensure safety compliance, providing technical and engineering support for process and equipment failures, identifying, and implementing process and product improvements, supporting qualification of new products/processes, analysing machine performance data, and managing improvement projects within budget and time constraints with a distinct focus on AVI inspection.
• Support new product introductions and capacity expansions, including new vendor selections, maintenance planning, design changes, change controls, OEE improvement, yield improvement, etc.
• Lead systematic technical root cause investigations.
• Support all company safety and quality programs and initiatives.

About you

• Experience in a highly regulated GMP environment.
• Degree in an Engineering discipline.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Strong documentation/protocol generation and execution skills.
• Automation experience with vision systems is desirable.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to offering interviews to candidates who request consideration under the Scheme and meet the minimum requirements for this role.

If you have a disability and require adjustments for the interview process, please email us at diversity.recruitmentUKIE@sanofi.com. We are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive and supportive experience for all applicants.

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