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Senior Quality Operations Manager-Advanced Imaging
Philips North America LLC · 🇺🇸 Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
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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 25 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 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 Philips North America LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Senior Manager, Quality Analytics” (Operations Research Analysts) in WA: $131k–$131k, median $131k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% 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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The US Department of Labor certified 25 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Title Senior Quality Operations Manager-Advanced Imaging Job Description The Senior Quality Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing strategic process validation initiatives, driving targeted/continuous improvements to optimize product quality /manufacturing efficiency, managing CAPA/Nonconformance processes and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and operational excellence. Your role: • Manages talent across the Quality team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management. • Manages the Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) process rigorously, investigating nonconformances, determining root causes, and implementing robust corrective and preventive actions, while monitoring CAPA effectiveness and overseeing the management of Non-Conformances (NC) and Quality Notifications (QN). • Plans the assessment of impact to Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) and associated controls in relation to design changes and assists in Manufacturing Process Development and Design Transfer activities. • Provides oversight for testing robustness of product transfer validations in the factory, report on project status of new products or transfers to factory and ensures validation activities and employee capabilities to support validation of process controls and completeness of New Product Introduction (NPI) or product transfers into factory to quality norms. • Drives strategic initiatives to elevate supplier quality standards, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in Research & Development (R&D), manufacturing, and regulatory affairs to address process gaps and uphold superior quality benchmarks. • Possesses complete knowledge of products/services, often leads a cooperative effort among project team members, and frequently interacts with subordinates, supervisors, customers, and functional peer groups on matters between functional areas. • Drives resolution of quality non-conformities with Philips internal suppliers and drives process validation as local factory-level QMS process owner to ensure adherence to quality standards and regulatory requirements. • Leads critical quality engineering and assurance tasks, ensuring the maintenance of manufacturing quality systems, ensuring risk management, and driving significant process improvement initiatives to facilitate New Product Introduction (NPI) completion and product transfers. • Manages issues necessitating an in-depth understanding of organizational objectives through the analysis of situations or data and implements strategic policies when determining methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to achieve desired outcomes. You're the right fit if: • You have a minimum of 10+ years’ experience in FDA regulated (ISO 13485) medical device quality operations/manufacturing environments, with a focus on quality operations, audit support, process validation/improvement, CAPA, non-conformance, PFMEA’s and Change/Risk Management (ISO 14971). • You have a minimum of 3+ years’ proven experience managing quality teams- budgeting, workforce planning, Performance Management, Employee Engagement/ Retention, Succession Planning, coaching, training, etc. • You have detailed experience/knowledge in managing CAPA processes, non-conformances, including problem identification, root cause analysis, implementation of solutions to prevent recurrence and drive continuous improvement. • You’re experienced in utilizing Quality, Reliability and Post Market Surveillance (PMS) insights/data analytics to lead continuous improvement throughout all stages of the product lifecycle. • You’re able to collaborate across R&D, manufacturing, and regulatory teams, build/cul