Only if the primary nature of the role is managerial or executive. A period of hands-on work during start-up does not automatically defeat the case, but a role that is mainly operational for most of the year is not an L-1A role.
What usually goes wrong
The typical failure is a job description written for the person the company wishes it could send rather than the operation that exists. Hypothetical example: a Lévis metal-fabrication group buys a small U.S. shop with four machinists and no supervisor.
The Lévis plant director is to run it, but for the first months she will also set up tooling and program the CNC cells herself. If the petition describes her as an executive setting strategy while the evidence shows she will be at a machine most days, the officer will read the mismatch. The honest structure is to show who will be hired to do the operational work, on what timeline, and to describe her authority over budgets, hiring, pricing and the four existing staff.
Supervising a handful of non-professional workers is not by itself managerial; managing an essential function or professionals can be. Get the staffing plan settled before the description is written.