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Production Engineering Manager roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which permanently ties your residency to a qualifying employer. Manufacturers, semiconductor firms, and industrial companies regularly sponsor foreign engineers with advanced degrees or substantial specialized experience in production systems and process optimization.
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Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.
Job Description
General Summary:
The IT Asset Management Program Manager is responsible for the daily and long-term strategic management of software and technology-related hardware assets within the organization. This includes planning, deploying and monitoring policies and procedures for tracking and reporting software license and/or hardware assets to ensure compliance with vendor contracts. This individual will assist in forming procurement strategies to optimize technology spending across the organization. The IT Asset Manager will also develop and implement procedures for tracking company assets to oversee quality control throughout their lifecycles. The IT Asset Manager will provide operational support and oversight to the Service Asset and Configuration Management process area by fulfilling the principal duties and responsibilities outlined below.
Key Tasks and Duties:
- Define, maintain, and update policies, procedures and work instructions for effective IT asset life cycle management (acquisition, deployment, utilization, de-installation, reallocation and disposal) of IT assets.
- Manage the maintenance of records and databases containing information regarding licenses, warranties, and service agreements for the organization's hardware and software.
- Minimizes organizational cost through product standardization and tracking.
- Track quality throughout the product lifetime.
- Work closely with IT Risk Management to support audit processes.
- Define metrics, gather data, and report effectiveness of IT asset management processes.
- Identify and act on process improvement opportunities.
- Maintain IT Asset Disposal Program.
- Monitor and measure IT Asset Management activities in attainment of established Operational Level Agreements.
- Act as a liaison with other departments as necessary to coordinate IT Asset Management requirements.
- Oversight of IT asset inventory tracking process.
- Monitor the IT asset management lifecycle.
- Generate status reports of IT assets.
- Participate in evaluation of the IT Asset management process.
- Research industry best practices and compare against HFHS’s practices in order to establish benchmarks for managing IT assets.
- Perform inventories and usage monitoring of all IT assets and present findings to management for action.
- Manages a staff of two asset analysts.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Materials Management, Management Engineering, or Business.
- Master’s Degree in a related area is preferred.
- Ten (10) years of progressive experience in IT service management, information technology, management engineering, training, project management, or other IT management experience.
- Seven (7) years of experience in a healthcare setting, preferred.
- Experience in a variety of IT and/or Service Management roles, such as Change/Incident/Problem Management, Program or Project Management.
- Working knowledge of Service Asset and Configuration Management and Change Management processes as well as public frameworks such as COBIT, TQM or ISO 9000:20000.
- Strong communication skills and comfortable interacting with multiple levels of an organization, including various levels of management.
- Excellent ability to manage multiple competing priorities and flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.
- Familiarity with service management tools (i.e. Service Now).
- High level of IT literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point) and IT Asset Management tools (SNOW).
- Excellent inventory and cost-management skills.
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, and ability to make effective presentations to senior organizational leadership.
- Ability to present ideas in a collaborative team setting and in a user-friendly language.
- Highly self-motivated and directed with keen attention to detail.
- Ability to plan, organize, monitor, and utilize IT operations resources efficiently.
- Ability to establish and meet project timelines and deliverables on implementation projects.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Required to acknowledge, respond, and fulfill customer requests in a timely manner.
- Understanding of current technologies and their relation to business units.
- Knowledge of contract management principles and basic accounting principles.
- Strong ability to multi-task while maintaining focus on changing priorities.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, task and project management, and organizational skills.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- Leads and directs the work of others.
Certifications Required:
- ITIL V3 Foundation certification.
- IT Asset Management (ITAM) certification, preferred.
Company Description
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.
Job Description
General Summary:
The IT Asset Management Program Manager is responsible for the daily and long-term strategic management of software and technology-related hardware assets within the organization. This includes planning, deploying and monitoring policies and procedures for tracking and reporting software license and/or hardware assets to ensure compliance with vendor contracts. This individual will assist in forming procurement strategies to optimize technology spending across the organization. The IT Asset Manager will also develop and implement procedures for tracking company assets to oversee quality control throughout their lifecycles. The IT Asset Manager will provide operational support and oversight to the Service Asset and Configuration Management process area by fulfilling the principal duties and responsibilities outlined below.
Key Tasks and Duties:
- Define, maintain, and update policies, procedures and work instructions for effective IT asset life cycle management (acquisition, deployment, utilization, de-installation, reallocation and disposal) of IT assets.
- Manage the maintenance of records and databases containing information regarding licenses, warranties, and service agreements for the organization's hardware and software.
- Minimizes organizational cost through product standardization and tracking.
- Track quality throughout the product lifetime.
- Work closely with IT Risk Management to support audit processes.
- Define metrics, gather data, and report effectiveness of IT asset management processes.
- Identify and act on process improvement opportunities.
- Maintain IT Asset Disposal Program.
- Monitor and measure IT Asset Management activities in attainment of established Operational Level Agreements.
- Act as a liaison with other departments as necessary to coordinate IT Asset Management requirements.
- Oversight of IT asset inventory tracking process.
- Monitor the IT asset management lifecycle.
- Generate status reports of IT assets.
- Participate in evaluation of the IT Asset management process.
- Research industry best practices and compare against HFHS’s practices in order to establish benchmarks for managing IT assets.
- Perform inventories and usage monitoring of all IT assets and present findings to management for action.
- Manages a staff of two asset analysts.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Materials Management, Management Engineering, or Business.
- Master’s Degree in a related area is preferred.
- Ten (10) years of progressive experience in IT service management, information technology, management engineering, training, project management, or other IT management experience.
- Seven (7) years of experience in a healthcare setting, preferred.
- Experience in a variety of IT and/or Service Management roles, such as Change/Incident/Problem Management, Program or Project Management.
- Working knowledge of Service Asset and Configuration Management and Change Management processes as well as public frameworks such as COBIT, TQM or ISO 9000:20000.
- Strong communication skills and comfortable interacting with multiple levels of an organization, including various levels of management.
- Excellent ability to manage multiple competing priorities and flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.
- Familiarity with service management tools (i.e. Service Now).
- High level of IT literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point) and IT Asset Management tools (SNOW).
- Excellent inventory and cost-management skills.
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, and ability to make effective presentations to senior organizational leadership.
- Ability to present ideas in a collaborative team setting and in a user-friendly language.
- Highly self-motivated and directed with keen attention to detail.
- Ability to plan, organize, monitor, and utilize IT operations resources efficiently.
- Ability to establish and meet project timelines and deliverables on implementation projects.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Required to acknowledge, respond, and fulfill customer requests in a timely manner.
- Understanding of current technologies and their relation to business units.
- Knowledge of contract management principles and basic accounting principles.
- Strong ability to multi-task while maintaining focus on changing priorities.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, task and project management, and organizational skills.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- Leads and directs the work of others.
Certifications Required:
- ITIL V3 Foundation certification.
- IT Asset Management (ITAM) certification, preferred.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Production Engineering Manager
Document your production systems expertise thoroughly
PERM requires your employer to define the job duties and minimum qualifications precisely. Gather evidence of your process engineering, lean manufacturing, or quality management credentials now, since any credential gaps can delay the labor certification audit stage.
Target manufacturers with active PERM filing history
Search DOL OFLC disclosure data to find employers who have filed PERM applications for production engineering roles before. Repeat filers already understand the sponsored-hire process and are less likely to withdraw sponsorship mid-process due to inexperience.
Verify your role clears the specialty occupation bar
EB-2 eligibility for Production Engineering Manager positions depends on the job requiring an advanced degree in engineering or a closely related field. Review the O*NET occupation profile for this role to confirm the degree standard before negotiating your job description with the employer.
Search green-card-sponsoring employers through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter production and manufacturing employers with a documented history of employment-based green card sponsorship, saving you from cold-applying to companies that have never navigated PERM for engineering management roles.
Negotiate the sponsorship timeline before accepting an offer
Ask the employer when they plan to initiate PERM after your start date. Production engineering managers from backlogged countries like India or China face multi-year waits at the EB-3 priority date stage, so aligning on timing upfront prevents surprises after you have already resigned elsewhere.
Confirm the prevailing wage tier matches your offered salary
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for Production Engineering Manager in your target city before your offer stage. USCIS and DOL both require the offered wage to meet or exceed the certified level, and a mismatch can force a restarted PERM filing.
Green Card Production Engineering Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Production Engineering Manager role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Production Engineering Manager positions can qualify under both categories. EB-2 applies when the role requires an advanced degree in engineering or a related field, or when the candidate holds a bachelor's degree plus at least five years of progressive specialized experience. EB-3 covers the same role when the minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree. Your employer selects the category when drafting the PERM job description, so the framing of required versus preferred qualifications matters significantly.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa sponsorship is temporary, capped at 85,000 new visas annually, and subject to lottery selection. PERM-based green card sponsorship has no annual cap at the petition level and is a permanent residency pathway. The trade-off is time: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and priority date availability can add two to five or more years before you receive your green card, whereas H-1B status can begin within months. For Production Engineering Managers from countries without priority date backlogs, the EB-3 timeline is often more predictable than it appears.
Which industries most commonly sponsor Production Engineering Managers for green cards?
Semiconductor manufacturers, automotive suppliers, aerospace and defense contractors, consumer electronics producers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers file the highest volume of PERM applications for production engineering management roles. These industries rely on specialized technical leadership that is difficult to source domestically, which supports the labor market test DOL requires before certifying a PERM application. Industrial automation and advanced materials companies are also active sponsors as domestic talent shortages in those sectors are well-documented.
How do I find employers who will sponsor a green card for a Production Engineering Manager position?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter job listings by employers with employment-based green card sponsorship history, which is far more targeted than searching general job boards that mix sponsored and non-sponsored postings. Cross-referencing with DOL OFLC disclosure data can help you verify that a prospective employer has completed PERM filings for production engineering roles before, not just other job categories.
What happens to my green card sponsorship if I change employers after PERM is filed?
Leaving your sponsoring employer before your I-140 is approved generally requires starting the entire PERM process from the beginning with a new employer. After I-140 approval and once your priority date is more than 180 days past that approval, portability rules under AC21 allow you to change employers without losing your priority date, provided the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. Production Engineering Manager roles across different manufacturing sectors often meet this similarity standard, but USCIS evaluates these determinations case by case.