Job detail for Validation Engineer

About the role

As a Validation Engineer within our Validation and Process Validation team, you will define and implement validation strategies for site projects, contributing directly to the quality and compliance of our pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Ready to get started?

Join a global network that optimizes how Sanofi delivers its solutions, with fluidity, determination, and at scale.

Within Manufacturing & Supply, you contribute to reinventing how life-changing treatments reach patients faster, all over the world.

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.

Key :

• Ensures the completion of projects, on time, according to the protocols and the established schedule
• Drafts validation plans, approves protocols and reports
• Participates in internal site meetings (industrial development, project teams, production team) for the preparation of major projects
• Manages validation resources allocated to projects (cross-functional management)
• Presents validations during inspections and audits: Acts as the guarantor of site compliance with current regulations and Group Validation directives for the assigned scope
• Monitors GMP and STD regulatory changes and directives, evaluates impacts on validation practices, and drafts and/or approves validation guides

About you

Experience:

• Significant experience in validation and qualification in the pharmaceutical industry, ideally in the fields of sterile/injectable processes or preparation, filling, visual inspection, or packaging equipment

Technical and soft skills:

• Knowledge of quality standards (cGMP, BPF, ICH, pharmacopoeia)
• Proficiency in process and equipment validation practices
• Comfortable with IT tools and artificial intelligence technologies
• Autonomy and adaptability in the face of frequent schedule changes
• Good interpersonal skills and ease in multi-service and multi-cultural interactions
• Ability to present and defend a validation strategy to various stakeholders

Education:

• Master's degree – Engineering degree or Master's (science, process engineering, industrial pharmacy, biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, or equivalent)

Languages:

• English B2 (read, written, spoken)

Why choose us?

• 🌍 Global impact: contribute directly to the manufacturing of medicines that improve the lives of millions of patients around the world

• 🚀 Large-scale projects: lead major industrial investments in cutting-edge technologies within a demanding pharmaceutical environment

• 🤝 Collaborative culture: evolve within close-knit, teams driven by values of innovation and operational excellence

• 📚 Accelerated development: benefit from access to continuous training, internal mobility, and a high-level network of technical experts

• 🏭 Strong local roots: work at two major industrial sites in Normandy, with the flexibility of partial remote work

• 🌱 Sustainable commitment: actively participate in the Group's environmental goals by optimizing the energy footprint of our facilities

Always Progressing.Discovering 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 go further, accelerate your thinking, and accomplish 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.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

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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The salary range for this position is :€42 400,00 - €56 533

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.