Job detail for 5x8 Maintenance Technician

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Job Title: 5x8 Maintenance Technician

• Workplace: Marcy-l’Etoile - Site Support Department

About the role

About Sanofi:

Sanofi is a company that innovates in R&D and leverages AI at scale to improve people's lives and create long-term growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and our innovative pipeline – allows us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we pursue the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

About the site:

The Marcy-l’Étoile site, near Lyon, is one of the largest vaccine research, development, and production sites in the world. It is also the most important R&D center for our Vaccines entity and a hub of excellence for new vaccine projects, as well as a cutting-edge biological and industrial platform, globally recognized for its expertise in vaccine bioproduction.

The site produces vaccines that protect against numerous diseases and immunize millions of patients each year: bacterial diseases (diphtheria, typhoid fever, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) infections, tetanus, pertussis) and viral diseases (hepatitis A, poliomyelitis, rabies). With over 100 years of experience serving public health, the site possesses expertise in pediatric combinations and serves more than 150 countries worldwide.

Reporting to the maintenance manager on shift within the Clean Utilities & Energy department, the Maintenance Technician will join one of the five teams working on a 5x8 shift pattern. Their mission will be to ensure the continuity of the site's installations by performing maintenance and troubleshooting interventions on critical equipment in the site's buildings (M&S and R&D).

Main missions:

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance operations on production equipment and utility installations
• Diagnose malfunctions, carry out repairs, and implement necessary actions to minimize installation downtime
• Ensure traceability of interventions in the CMMS and complete associated documentation in compliance with GMP/BPF requirements
• Identify and propose continuous improvement actions aimed at strengthening the reliability, availability, and performance of equipment
• Evaluate, in collaboration with equipment managers, the Quality and HSE impacts of the interventions performed and contribute to the drafting of associated documents
• Participate in the management and coordination of on-call duties, while providing technical support during complex interventions
• Collaborate closely with all maintenance, production, quality, and support teams
• Guarantee the application of Health, Safety, Environment (HSE), Quality, Cost, and Deadline requirements during each intervention
• Contribute to maintaining regulatory compliance and the proper functioning of installations in a demanding pharmaceutical environment

About you

Experience and Education:

• Minimum 2-year degree (Bac +2) in Industrial Maintenance, Electrotechnics, Automation, or equivalent
• Initial experience in industrial maintenance, ideally acquired in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, or food industry

Soft Skills and Interpersonal Skills:

• Responsiveness, rigor, and a sense of internal customer service

• Autonomous in managing daily work

• Organizational skills, ability to prioritize and manage emergencies

• Team spirit (working in 5x8 shifts) and knowledge sharing

• Good oral and written communication skills

Always Progress. Discover the Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and enter a new era of science – where your journey can be as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you so that you can go further, accelerate your thinking, and achieve what has never been done before. You will help push boundaries, challenge conventions, and design smarter solutions for the communities we serve. Ready to pursue the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's pursue progress and discover the extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we believe in equal opportunity, without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or any other criteria 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.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.