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Site Engineering Manager, Manufacturing (Isotopes)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 🇺🇸 Indianapolis
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles5 certified filings for “Finance Manager” (Financial Quantitative Analysts) in NJ: $73k–$113k, median $113k. Most were filed at wage level II (60%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description Summary Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Imagine leading the engineering strategy behind a state-of-the-art radioligand therapy isotope manufacturing facility and helping deliver life-changing medicines to patients around the world. As the Site Engineering Manager, you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring equipment reliability, operational excellence, and manufacturing readiness across a highly regulated GMP environment. This is an exciting opportunity to build and develop a high-performing technical team, drive innovative engineering solutions, lead key capital and equipment improvement initiatives, and partner across Operations, Quality, Automation, Supply Chain, and other site functions to support safe, compliant, and reliable manufacturing operations. Job Description Key Responsibilities • Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership for the Process Engineering and Maintenance departments supporting manufacturing process equipment, including applicable QC-adjacent equipment. • Coach and develop engineers, maintenance professionals, reliability resources, and external service providers while remaining directly engaged in equipment troubleshooting, investigations, execution, and recovery when needed. • Ensure equipment remains safe, compliant, qualified, reliable, and fit for intended use while owning site maintenance and asset-management programs, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. • Drive equipment reliability strategies to improve performance and reduce unplanned downtime. Lead process and equipment engineering initiatives that improve process capability, equipment performance, throughput, yield, safety, product quality, and manufacturability • Provide governance and oversight for commissioning, qualification, and validation activities, including lifecycle documentation, risk-based qualification, periodic review, requalification, and maintenance of the validated state. • Lead engineering investigations, deviations, change controls, corrective and preventive actions, and technical risk assessments, ensuring timely closure and sustainable corrective actions. • Maintain continuous inspection readiness for Engineering and Maintenance; serve as the site engineering subject matter expert during internal audits, health authority inspections, and regulatory commitments. • Manage departmental operating and capital budgets, contractor performance, technical service agreements, and procurement activities to deliver compliant, cost-effective engineering support. Essential Requirements • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Automation, or a related technical field. • Minimum 5 years of engineering, maintenance, reliability, process, or equipment experience within the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other regulated manufacturing industry. • Experience hiring, leading, and developing technical resources in a cGMP environment, including a minimum of 3 years of people leadership experience managing and developing technical teams. • In-depth knowledge of FDA regulations, Title 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP5, and GMP systems. • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate equipment status, risks, priorities, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders. • Ability to travel up to 10% as required. The salary for this position is expected to range between $114,100 and $211,900 per year. The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors. Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending