MSAT Process Engineer

• Location: Geel, Belgium

About the job

Looking to launch your career at the cutting edge of healthcare? Join Sanofi for a chance to develop with mentoring and guidance from inspirational leaders while helping to make an impact on the lives of countless people worldwide. As Process Engineer in our Manufacturing Science & Analytical Technology (MSAT) Cell Culture team, you’ll provide technical support for biologics manufacturing. Your role will focus on the scale-up and tech transfer of commercial and late-stage clinical processes, process validation, regulatory support, and lifecycle management, including the continuous improvement of commercial processes.

Main responsibilities:

• New Product Introductions: Facilitate technology transfers for clinical and commercial manufacturing processes of biological drug substances from development labs to GMP manufacturing with a specific focus on upstream processes.

• Process Validation: Develop and execute strategies for initial process validation activities, including defining process control strategies and conducting process performance qualification.

• Process Improvements: Identify enhancements to yield and process robustness and generate supportive data packages to support implementation at manufacturing scale.

• Commercial Production Support: Provide data monitoring and trending of existing production processes, generate scientific/technical protocols and reports in support of significant changes, and support complex deviations to the production processes by contributing to root cause investigations and process/product impact assessments.

• Weekend Support System: Participate in the rotational weekend support system in the MSAT cell culture lab.

About you

• Experience: 3+ year relevant industrial experience

• Soft and technical skills:

• In-depth knowledge of cell culture techniques, industrial-scale bioreactors and cGMP/regulatory guidelines.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to solve complex problems and adapt to change.

• Proactive, autonomous, and results-oriented with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

• Effective communicator with a positive attitude

• International mindset and willingness to travel abroad for short-term assignments.

• Education: PhD in Life Sciences, Chemical Engineering (or equivalent through experience)

• Languages: Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral. Notions of Dutch and the motivation to develop the language skill further.

Why choose us?

• Contribute to the production of life-saving medications that improve patient outcomes worldwide

• Engage with a global network of professionals and benefit from a culture that promotes teamwork and mutual respect

• Supportive work environment that values employee wellbeing and possibility of remote work arrangements to support work-life balance

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration with research and development, manufacturing and quality teams to bring new therapies to the market

• Drive innovation and implementation of state-of-the-art technologies to enhance operational performance

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