Job Description

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Job title: Digital Site Shopfloor Expert

• Location: Le Trait, France

• Job type: Permanent, full-time

About the job:

As Digital Site Shopfloor Expert within our Manufacturing & Supply Digital team, you'll provide specialized technical expertise and continuous improvement for shopfloor systems across our production sites, serving as the critical bridge between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). Ready to get started?

Join the digital engine driving Sanofi's transformation - where AI, automation, and smart manufacturing power faster production and smarter operations. Here, you'll help ensure our manufacturing systems deliver life-changing treatments to millions worldwide with the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and reliability.

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 people’s lives.

Main responsibilities:

• Deliver end-to-end technical expertise on manufacturing shopfloor systems and solutions across multiple sites

• Configure computerized systems in compliance with Sanofi quality standards and maintain them in a validated state

• Coordinate installations of automated systems, workstations, and hardware (PLC, IoT, manufacturing workstations, etc.) with third parties

• Manage and track the work of suppliers and service providers to ensure quality deliverables

• Collaborate with security experts to implement and maintain IT security solutions for the site

• Contribute to projects as a bridge between global and local organizations to ensure consistency and standardization of installed systems

• Partner with automation experts and solution maintenance specialists on the design, implementation, and maintenance of systems

• Promoting local digital initiatives and implementing them with the support of Digital M&S team

• Analyze digital products/computerized systems to meet all controls to address applicable quality, regulatory (Data Privacy, GxP, SOX, FDA, ISO standards, etc.), and cybersecurity requirements, including adherence to validation standards

• Apply all architecture standards and guidelines, secure correct interfaces between applications within his/her scope of responsibility.

• Reduce or eliminate obsolescence of the site, by proposing alternatives/replacement of obsolete technologies according to global standards

About you:

• Proven experience in manufacturing IT/OT systems, preferably in pharmaceutical or regulated industries

• Seasoned working experience on manufacturing Information solutions (MES, Historian, Serialization, ERP etc.)/ Digital Manufacturing solutions (connectivity, IoT, Data Lake), preferably in healthcare/ pharmaceutical industry. Knowledge of computerized systems compliance/ infrastructure validation/ laboratory/ SCADA systems (IoT or IIOT solutions) would be a plus

• Knowledge of GxP compliance requirements for computerized systems

• Ability to bridge IT and OT domains with understanding of both worlds

• Problem-solving skills for complex functional and technical challenges

• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities to work with diverse stakeholders

• Project coordination experience with third-party vendors and service providers

• Understanding of cybersecurity principles in industrial environments

Education:

• Degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field

Languages:

• Fluent in French and English

Why choose us?

• Work at the intersection of technology and manufacturing in a role that directly impacts how we produce life-saving medicines

• Apply your expertise across multiple sites with opportunities to solve diverse technical challenges and expand your knowledge

• Shape the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing by implementing cutting-edge digital solutions in a GxP environment

• Collaborate with global experts in manufacturing, automation, IT, and digital transformation

• Develop your career with access to mentoring, training programs, and opportunities to grow across our global network

• Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice.

Pursue Progress Discover Extraordinary

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics 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.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!