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Facilities Management and Reliability Lead
Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp · 🇺🇸 Puerto Rico - Canovanas
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 99 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 Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Associate Director, Oncology Portfolio Analytics” (Management Analysts) in MD: $157k–$157k, median $157k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 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 — Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp
The US Department of Labor certified 99 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
Typical Accountabilities • Lead the safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective operation of site utility and environmental systems, ensuring continuity of critical services for manufacturing and site operations. • Directly lead Utilities Operations personnel, including work coordination, shift coverage, performance management, training, qualification, development plans, and succession planning. • Maintain operational control, procedures, logbooks, alarm response, escalation protocols, and required records for utilities systems in accordance with cGMP, SHE, company standards, and applicable permits and regulations. • Ensure utilities equipment is operated within approved parameters and that chemical treatment, inspections, testing, emergency generator readiness, and standby arrangements are executed as required. • Lead troubleshooting, incident response, operational risk assessment, and recovery of utilities systems; coordinate effectively with Maintenance, Engineering, SHE, Quality, Manufacturing, Security, contractors, and external agencies. • Serve as the Facilities Management leader and governance owner for the Reliability strategy, including TPM and ALCM, aligned with site objectives, long-term plans, and License to Operate priorities. • Develop and maintain the reliability roadmap for Facilities Management assets using equipment criticality, failure history, condition data, risk, business impact, and life-cycle cost. • Drive Reliability-Centered Maintenance and optimization of preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs, including vibration, thermography, oil, ultrasonic, and other applicable technologies. • Lead or facilitate Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, bad-actor elimination, defect elimination, and recurrence-prevention actions for utilities and Facilities Management assets. • Lead ALCM governance, including asset condition and obsolescence assessments, risk prioritization, mitigation plans, renewal strategies, and integration into the five-year plan, Site Master Plan, capital plan, and risk register. • Establish and monitor reliability and utilities performance indicators, visual management, dashboards, and management reports, including availability, downtime, PM compliance, repeat failures, energy and water performance, cost, and risk reduction. • Partner with project teams to embed maintainability, operability, reliability, spare-parts strategy, commissioning, qualification, and life-cycle requirements into capital and expense projects. • Support critical spare-parts and materials strategies, balancing equipment risk, availability, lead time, inventory, and cost. • Support Facilities Management financial processes, including annual budget, RBU and MTP forecasts, accruals, purchase orders, service entries, contracts, utility forecasts, and monthly cost monitoring versus plan; prepare business cases and financial analyses for reliability and utilities investments. • Support the Sustainability leader and site sustainability program by providing accurate utilities consumption and emissions data, technical evaluations, project execution support, and operational improvements related to energy, water, waste, carbon, and resource conservation. • Represent Facilities Management in reliability, TPM, ALCM, utilities, and technical forums; support sustainability forums when requested. • Promote Lean ways of working, standard work, Gemba, problem solving, Kaizen, and continuous improvement across Utilities Operations and Facilities Management reliability processes. • Serve as acting delegate for the Associate Director, Facilities Management when required, providing operational decision-making, escalation management, stakeholder coordination, and continuity of departmental leadership within delegated authority.