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Head of Maintenance jobs with green card sponsorship involve EB-2 or EB-3 PERM labor certification, where your employer documents a prevailing wage determination and a good-faith U.S. recruitment test before filing your I-140 petition. Facilities management experience and trade credentials directly shape your category eligibility and PERM classification.
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Get Access To All JobsJob Title: Head of Maintenance - Biologics
- 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
- 7+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ 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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All 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.
Job Title: Head of Maintenance - Biologics
- 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
- 7+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ 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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All 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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Head of Maintenance
Match your credentials to PERM classification
EB-3 skilled worker covers Head of Maintenance roles requiring at least two years of experience. If you hold a bachelor's degree in facilities management or engineering, you may qualify for EB-2. Pull the O*NET profile for your SOC code before targeting employers to confirm which category fits your background.
Document progressive maintenance supervisory experience
PERM requires your employer to define minimum qualifications in the job description. Any experience you list on your resume that exceeds those minimums can complicate the recruitment test. Keep your documented experience aligned precisely with the requirements stated in the PERM application from the start.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate by role
Head of Maintenance green card sponsorship is concentrated in property management, healthcare systems, and large industrial facilities. Search Migrate Mate by job title and location to identify employers with verified green card filing history for facilities and maintenance roles, then prioritize outreach to those employers.
Target employers with multi-site facilities portfolios
Large facility operators managing multiple properties or campuses are more likely to have established immigration counsel and prior PERM experience. During interviews, ask directly whether the company has sponsored EB-2 or EB-3 candidates for similar operations or plant maintenance roles before.
Understand the PERM recruitment test before accepting an offer
DOL requires your employer to run a good-faith recruitment test before filing PERM, advertising the role at the prevailing wage determined by the OFLC Wage Search for your geographic area. If the posted wage is below the prevailing wage level, DOL will deny the application and the process restarts.
Track your priority date against per-country backlogs
Once your I-140 is approved, your priority date determines when you can file for adjustment of status or consular processing. Nationals of India and China face significant backlogs in the EB-3 category. USCIS publishes the Visa Bulletin monthly, so monitor your chart carefully as your case progresses.
Green Card Head of Maintenance: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Head of Maintenance role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Head of Maintenance positions qualify under EB-3 as skilled workers, since the role typically requires at least two years of supervisory or trade experience. If the position requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, facilities management, or a related field, or if you hold a relevant advanced degree, the employer may be able to file under EB-2 instead. Your employer's immigration attorney will document the minimum requirements in the PERM application to establish the correct category.
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to lawful permanent residence, not a temporary status. Unlike H-1B visa, there is no lottery and no fixed status period. However, PERM requires your employer to complete a formal DOL-supervised recruitment test and obtain a prevailing wage determination before filing. The process is longer, and nationals of high-demand countries such as India and China may face per-country backlogs after I-140 approval before they can proceed to adjustment of status.
Where can I find employers sponsoring green cards for Head of Maintenance jobs?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified green card filing history searchable by job title and location. For Head of Maintenance roles, focus on large property management companies, hospital systems, university campuses, and industrial manufacturers, as these sectors maintain dedicated facilities teams and are more likely to have prior PERM experience and established immigration support.
Can I change employers after my green card process has started?
AC21 job portability allows you to change to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more. If you change employers before that threshold, your current PERM and I-140 generally cannot transfer, and the new employer would need to restart the process. Your approved I-140 priority date may carry over to a new employer's I-140 petition once the original I-140 was approved, which can protect your place in the queue.
What documents should I prepare before a Head of Maintenance employer files PERM on my behalf?
Gather employment records that document your supervisory experience, any trade certifications relevant to your specialization such as HVAC, electrical, or plumbing licenses, and official transcripts if your sponsorship pathway relies on a degree. USCIS will require evidence at the I-140 stage that you meet the minimum requirements stated in the PERM application, so your documentation must align exactly with what the employer listed when filing with DOL.