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Head of Maintenance roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, facilities management, or a related field. Employers in manufacturing, healthcare, and property management regularly file Labor Condition Applications for this title. No lottery anxiety for Australian nationals, who can pursue the E-3 visa instead.
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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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Document your engineering degree precisely
Specialty occupation approval hinges on degree-to-role alignment. Get a credential evaluation that maps your engineering or facilities management degree to U.S. equivalents before you apply, so your employer can cite it confidently in the LCA.
Target facilities-heavy industries with LCA history
Manufacturing plants, hospital systems, and large commercial property firms file LCAs for Head of Maintenance roles regularly. Focus your search on employers in those sectors, since they've already navigated the sponsorship process for this exact title.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsors
Search Migrate Mate for employers with confirmed LCA filing history for maintenance leadership roles. It surfaces companies that have already sponsored this position, so you're not guessing which employers will entertain sponsorship discussions.
Check prevailing wage before salary negotiations
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your location and role. Run the OFLC Wage Search for your metro area before you negotiate, so your offer lands above the threshold and the LCA clears without delays.
Clarify the specialty occupation case early
USCIS scrutinizes maintenance roles because some positions don't require a specific degree. Ask your employer to document that the Head of Maintenance role requires at minimum a bachelor's in engineering or a directly related field, not just any degree.
Australian nationals should request E-3 processing
If you hold an Australian passport, ask your employer to file the LCA for E-3 status rather than H-1B. You skip the annual lottery entirely, the 10,500-slot annual cap has never been exhausted, and your two-year status is renewable indefinitely.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Head of Maintenance role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but it's not automatic. USCIS requires that the position normally demands a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field like mechanical engineering or facilities management. Generic maintenance supervisor roles that accept any background often fail this test, so the job description must explicitly require a directly related degree to support the petition.
Which visa types are realistic for a Head of Maintenance seeking U.S. sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path if the role qualifies as a specialty occupation. Australian nationals can pursue the E-3, which skips the lottery and has a never-exhausted annual cap of 10,500. Candidates with a TN visa-eligible profession list background won't find Head of Maintenance on the USMCA list, so TN isn't an option for this title.
What degree background do employers typically require for sponsored Head of Maintenance positions?
Most sponsoring employers cite mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, or facilities management as the qualifying field. A general business or unrelated degree weakens the specialty occupation argument significantly. If your degree is in a related but adjacent field, a formal credential evaluation explaining the connection strengthens the LCA filing.
How do I find employers who have actually sponsored Head of Maintenance roles before?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified LCA sponsorship history for maintenance leadership roles, so you can focus outreach on companies that have already filed for this position rather than cold-approaching firms with no sponsorship track record.
Can my employer use PERM labor certification to sponsor me for a green card in this role?
Yes. EB-2 requires an advanced degree or exceptional ability, while EB-3 covers skilled workers with at least two years of experience and no minimum degree requirement. The employer files a PERM application with DOL to test the labor market before petitioning USCIS. Per-country backlogs mean timelines vary significantly depending on your nationality.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Head of Maintenance jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.