- Location: Waterford, Ireland
- Start date: 1 June 2026
- Duration: 3 months
- Work Model: Full-time, on-site
About the job
As a Biologics Operations Summer Intern, you will gain hands-on experience in the manufacturing of biologic medicines within a sterile production environment. Working alongside an experienced and supportive team, you will help support daily manufacturing activities, learn how monoclonal antibody medicines are prepared and filled, and contribute to process improvement initiatives. This internship offers a valuable introduction to biopharmaceutical manufacturing and the opportunity to develop technical, analytical, and collaboration skills in a real-world production setting.
Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.
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
- Support daily sterile manufacturing activities, including formulation and filling of monoclonal antibody products.
- Learn and apply aseptic processing techniques while following cleanroom protocols and contamination control practices.
- Assist in collecting and analysing manufacturing data, including key performance indicators and process parameters.
- Contribute to projects that aim to improve manufacturing processes and operational efficiency.
- Work with teams across Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain and Manufacturing to support safe and reliable production.
- Support investigations and improvement activities that help reduce product loss and strengthen manufacturing performance.
- Learn how regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing works and support activities aligned with Good Manufacturing Practice standards.
About you
To excel in this role you will need to have:
- Currently pursuing a degree in Biotechnology, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Life Sciences or another STEM-related field.
- A curiosity about how medicines are manufactured and a willingness to learn in a hands-on environment.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with different teams.
- Interest in analysing data and using insights to improve processes.
- A positive and proactive mindset with a continuous learning approach.
- Basic experience using tools such as Microsoft Excel for data organisation and analysis.
- Basic understanding of laboratory or manufacturing environments.
Nice to have
- Exposure to data visualisation tools such as Power BI.
Why choose us?
- Stretch your skills through apprenticeships, internships, graduate programs, and international experiences that grow with you.
- Learn from inspiring mentors and collaborative teams while contributing to real projects that shape the future of healthcare.
- Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve.
- Explore more with personalized development plans, short-term gigs, and internal mobility across functions and countries.
- Grow in a purpose-driven company where your voice matters and your work helps improve millions of lives.
- Thrive in inclusive, flexible workplaces that support your personal and professional well-being.
- Launch your career with a company that invests in you — and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.
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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.
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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