Job title: Engineering Project Leader

• Location: Beijing Site

About the job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as Engineering Project Leader within our M&S China-BEI Site, will be to making best class medicines with excellent strategies and tools and delivering them to our patients.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities

Please indicate here the main job responsibilities

• Identify and onboard the appropriate local Engineering team members to drive the design, construction, C&Q and handover of the new greenfield facility in China.
  • Required local internal resources and expertise to ensure full operability in line with the project staffing plan.
• Develop cross training plan to ensure successful C&Q and startup leveraging existing Frankfurt facilities and expertise.
• Collaborate strongly with IFF Program teams to manage conceptual, basic and detailed engineering studies with optimized solutions leveraging Frankfurt process and process automation replication while integrating China local rules & codes.
• Define together with Purchasing, Global SME and Program Design Team the best contract model for all key steps: Equipment order, Automation infrastructure and execution, Design, Construction and C&Q activities.
• Design, construct, startup and commission & qualify the project in accordance with HSE, Quality, Business & Users requirements focus on design to cost solutions.
• Lead the China project engineering team and the selected engineering, construction and C&Q contractors to deliver project objectives in accordance with the defined strategy, budget and timelines.
• Major focus on construction and C&Q safety following the "Sanofi Construction Global Minimum Safety Requirements" as well as the local safety regulations. Considering this is a greenfield project with anticipated peak workers ~ 1,000 with concurrent and overlapping activities.
• Ensure strong partnership between Automation and Digital, following a synchronized execution plan to support the ambition to deliver a highly automated and digitized greenfield site.
• Implement Project Controls & Planning with appropriate SOPs.
• Implement standard reporting (Monthly Project Report) to manage and communicate on Safety, Cost, Planning & Performance.
• Ensure that both Sanofi EHS, Quality standards and China regulation are implemented & validated before execution.
• Strengthen leadership and organizational capabilities within the team.
• Build and sustain high performance management team.
• Anticipate, identify and communicate project risks on & across the site.
  • Track action plans to manage risk all along the project.
• Assist site teams during PQ & validation activities before full handover.

About you

List here ideally the must-haves criteria to be successful on the role.

Experience

• Strong knowledge on GMPs & EHS requirements.
• Ability to manage projects in a complex environment while achieving significant business results.
• Strong leadership with experience in leading Project > 100 M€.
• Ability to influence and build relationships across the organization.
• Excellent problem solver and able to generate innovative a digital solution to improve efficiency.
• Experience working on large capex projects in Asia (China, Singapore, etc) is a strong asset.

Soft skills

• Collaborate effectively with peers, stakeholders, partners across the organization to positively impact business results.
• Act for innovation, initiating new and improved ways of working.
• Develop teams in anticipation of future business needs.

• LEAN oriented, problem solving & new way of working.
• Open minded and curios to learn new tools.

Technical skills

• In depth knowledge in Biologics process including aseptic technologies.
• Know-how in integrated C&Q activities for Pharma process.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical or Process Engineering with at least 15 years of experience in pharmaceutical industries leading Tier 1 project.

• Pharmaceutical facility start-up or manufacturing position experience.

Languages

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English
• Chinese (Mandarin) is a strong asset.

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let's pursue progress. And let's discover extraordinary together.

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