Head of Maintenance- Support Services
Company websitesanofi.com (Sanofi, opens in new tab)
Base salary $148,500 to $214,500
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Framingham, MA
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- LocationFramingham, MA
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About this job
Job Title: Head of Maintenance- Support Services
- Location: Framingham, MA
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.
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 lives.
Main Responsibilities:
- Maintenance Execution: Lead preventive, corrective, condition-based maintenance, calibration, and periodic qualification. Maintain schedule compliance, backlog control, resource alignment, and timely risk escalation.
- Safety and Compliance: Ensure maintenance activities comply with HSE, cGMP, data-integrity, permit, LOTO, energy-isolation, contractor-safety, and documentation requirements. Support deviations, CAPAs, audits, and regulatory inspections.
- Reliability and Operational Support: Improve asset reliability and lifecycle performance through failure analysis, equipment criticality, condition monitoring, root cause analysis, and bad-actor elimination. Minimize maintenance-related APU manufacturing downtime.
- Work and Contractor Management: Own maintenance workflows from work intake through closure. Manage contractors and vendors for safety, technical capability, quality, delivery, performance, and cost.
- Financial and People Leadership: Manage staffing, employee development, budgets, forecasts, service contracts, overtime, materials, and cost improvements without compromising safety, compliance, or reliability.
- Projects and Shutdowns: Provide maintainability requirements for projects, commissioning, qualification, turnover, and equipment changes. Lead maintenance support for shutdowns, outages, start-ups, emergencies, and return-to-service.
Decision Rights:
Decision Authority
- Maintenance staffing, organization design, work allocation, and performance management within approved budgets.
- Maintenance work-management processes and priorities.
- Contractor and vendor selection within delegated authority.
Accountable For
- Timely completion of maintenance, calibration, and qualification activities.
- Maintenance HSE controls and regulatory compliance.
- Equipment reliability and maintenance-related APU downtime.
- Maintenance budget, contractor performance, and project maintainability.
- Inspection readiness and effective risk escalation.
Informed Of
- Production schedules, shutdowns, and equipment-access constraints.
- Deviations, CAPAs, audit findings, and regulatory commitments.
- Capital projects, equipment changes, and obsolescence risks.
- Budget constraints, critical-spare shortages, significant failures, and safety events.
Key Interfaces
Operations; Quality, Validation and Metrology; HSE; Engineering, Projects and Automation; Procurement and Finance; and the Head of Site Engineering & Maintenance.
About You:
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, maintenance management, life sciences, or a related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including 5+ years leading technical teams in regulated manufacturing.
- Demonstrated experience in maintenance execution, reliability, calibration, contractor management, budgeting, and shutdown support.
- Working knowledge of cGMP, data integrity, deviations, CAPAs, CMMS/EAM, safe-work permits, and LOTO.
- Strong communication, decision-making, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical manufacturing experience, including single-use technologies.
- Knowledge of FMEA, root cause analysis, criticality assessment, condition monitoring, and lifecycle planning.
- Professional certification such as PE, CMRP, CRL, PMP, CEM, or Lean Six Sigma.
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.
- Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply.
- Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation at speed and scale
- Transform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.
Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic 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.
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Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
North America Applicants Only
The salary range for this position is:
$148,500.00 - $214,500.00All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
Source: Sanofi on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($148,500) is above 77% of the 259 Skilled Trades & Maintenance roles nationwide listed on this site; 2 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $123,300; the middle half runs from $111,000 to $145,500.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingHead of Maintenance- Support Services$148,500 to $214,500
Supply Chain Product Leader$150,000 to $216,667
Head of Maintenance - Biologics$148,500 to $214,500
Regional Patient Advocacy Lead - Transplant$148,500 to $214,500
Associate Director Access Strategy Insulins Established Products$148,500 to $214,500
Statistical Project Leader$148,500 to $214,500
Head of Maintenance - Biologics$148,500 to $214,500
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Head of Maintenance- Support Services (this listing) | $148,500 - $214,500 |
| Supply Chain Product Leader | $150,000 - $216,667 |
| Head of Maintenance - Biologics | $148,500 - $214,500 |
| Regional Patient Advocacy Lead - Transplant | $148,500 - $214,500 |
| Associate Director Access Strategy Insulins Established Products | $148,500 - $214,500 |
| Statistical Project Leader | $148,500 - $214,500 |
| Head of Maintenance - Biologics | $148,500 - $214,500 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-05
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Framingham, MA
$148,500.00 - $214,500.00
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What we verified
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
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