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Human Resources roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in HR, business, or a related field. Large multinationals and tech employers sponsor HR Managers, Recruiters, and Compensation Analysts regularly. Expect employers to file a Labor Condition Application certifying your offered wage meets the DOL prevailing wage for your metro area.
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Get Access To All JobsLocation: Middlefield, CT, US, 06455
Business Unit: Zygo
Posting Date: Jun 19, 2026
Job Description:
At Zygo, your skills and insights will be integral to our core values of curiosity, collaboration, and persistence. For over 50 years, Zygo Corporation in Middlefield, CT, has been a global leader in designing and manufacturing advanced optical metrology systems, ultra-precise optical components, and complex electro-optical systems and assemblies. Join our team, where your expertise will drive cutting-edge solutions, address complex technical challenges, and uphold the highest standards of precision and safety. We are looking for a Human Resources Generalist who is detail-oriented and service-driven with a strong focus on delivering HR operational support across recruiting, onboarding, and the full employee life-cycle.
As our HR Generalist Talent Operations, you will work with our team to execute high-volume HR processes with accuracy and efficiency while ensuring a positive employee experience, bringing your skills in coordinating end-to-end recruitment activities, managing seamless new hire onboarding, and supporting key employee lifecycle moments including transfers, promotions, engagement initiatives, and offboarding.
Key Responsibilities:
Talent Acquisition:
- Partner with your HR team members and hiring managers to execute recruitment processes such as coordination of interviews, candidate communications, generating offers, and managing the new hire onboarding process to ensure a positive, timely, and professional candidate experience
Onboarding & New Hire Experience:
- Manage onboarding workflows from offer acceptance through first 90 days
- Coordinate and lead new hire orientation
- Partner with hiring managers to ensure readiness
- Serve as primary point of contact for new employees during onboarding
- Track onboarding milestones and follow up on completion
Employee Lifecycle Administration:
- Support employee changes including promotions, transfers, and role changes
- Maintain HRIS data accuracy and process transactions (hires, changes, terminations)
- Assist with offboarding processes (exit interviews, documentation, final steps)
- Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable regulations
- Support audit readiness through accurate documentation and recordkeeping
HR Programs:
- Partner with HR team on key initiatives - engagement, communication, and HR programs/projects
Key Skills & Competencies:
- Bachelor’s Degree in HR or related field
- 2–5 years of HR or HR operations experience
- Experience with recruiting and onboarding processes
- Familiarity with full employee lifecycle administration
- Strong organizational and process management skills
- Collaborative, with ability to lead across functional teams
- Initiative-taking communicator who has a bias for action and able to manage multiple stakeholders and challenge up sometimes with competing demands
- Solution-oriented, interpersonally savvy problem-solver
- High attention to detail and data accuracy
- HR certification (PHR/SHRM-CP) is a plus
- Proficiency with HRIS and ATS platforms (e.g., ADP, Workforce Manager, SuccessFactors)
- Knowledge of basic HR policies and compliance requirements
- Some domestic travel as required
This role is critical in ensuring operational excellence and consistency in HR processes while contributing to a positive employee and candidate experience. The HR Generalist serves as a key enabler for the broader HR team, allowing strategic functions to scale effectively.
Bring your passion and commitment to Zygo, where we are curious, collaborative, persistent, and confident, where safety and quality guide every step of our journey. Grow with us as we solve complex challenges, inspire confidence, and drive excellence in manufacturing.
Are you ready to expand the boundaries of possibility, simplify the complex, and embody the values that define our success? We welcome your unique perspective and invite you to join us!
We offer competitive compensation, benefits, retirement (401k), and paid time off programs. Compensation and position level will be set based on experience with an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and bring value.
Due to the nature of Zygo Navitar's programs and products, applicants must have the legal right to work in the US and additionally must be legally authorized to access export-controlled information and source code.
Compensation
Employee Type: Salaried
Currency: USD
Salary Minimum: 70,000
Salary Maximum: 90,000
Incentive: No
Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market/business considerations, and geographic location.
For more information on AMETEK's competitive benefits, please click here.
AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5 billion.
AMETEK is committed to making a safer, sustainable, and more productive world a reality. We use differentiated technology solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We employ 22,000 colleagues, in 35 countries, that are grounded by our core values: Ethics and Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Inclusion, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility. AMETEK is a component of the S&P 500.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should call 1 (866) 263-8359.
Location: Middlefield, CT, US, 06455
Business Unit: Zygo
Posting Date: Jun 19, 2026
Job Description:
At Zygo, your skills and insights will be integral to our core values of curiosity, collaboration, and persistence. For over 50 years, Zygo Corporation in Middlefield, CT, has been a global leader in designing and manufacturing advanced optical metrology systems, ultra-precise optical components, and complex electro-optical systems and assemblies. Join our team, where your expertise will drive cutting-edge solutions, address complex technical challenges, and uphold the highest standards of precision and safety. We are looking for a Human Resources Generalist who is detail-oriented and service-driven with a strong focus on delivering HR operational support across recruiting, onboarding, and the full employee life-cycle.
As our HR Generalist Talent Operations, you will work with our team to execute high-volume HR processes with accuracy and efficiency while ensuring a positive employee experience, bringing your skills in coordinating end-to-end recruitment activities, managing seamless new hire onboarding, and supporting key employee lifecycle moments including transfers, promotions, engagement initiatives, and offboarding.
Key Responsibilities:
Talent Acquisition:
- Partner with your HR team members and hiring managers to execute recruitment processes such as coordination of interviews, candidate communications, generating offers, and managing the new hire onboarding process to ensure a positive, timely, and professional candidate experience
Onboarding & New Hire Experience:
- Manage onboarding workflows from offer acceptance through first 90 days
- Coordinate and lead new hire orientation
- Partner with hiring managers to ensure readiness
- Serve as primary point of contact for new employees during onboarding
- Track onboarding milestones and follow up on completion
Employee Lifecycle Administration:
- Support employee changes including promotions, transfers, and role changes
- Maintain HRIS data accuracy and process transactions (hires, changes, terminations)
- Assist with offboarding processes (exit interviews, documentation, final steps)
- Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable regulations
- Support audit readiness through accurate documentation and recordkeeping
HR Programs:
- Partner with HR team on key initiatives - engagement, communication, and HR programs/projects
Key Skills & Competencies:
- Bachelor’s Degree in HR or related field
- 2–5 years of HR or HR operations experience
- Experience with recruiting and onboarding processes
- Familiarity with full employee lifecycle administration
- Strong organizational and process management skills
- Collaborative, with ability to lead across functional teams
- Initiative-taking communicator who has a bias for action and able to manage multiple stakeholders and challenge up sometimes with competing demands
- Solution-oriented, interpersonally savvy problem-solver
- High attention to detail and data accuracy
- HR certification (PHR/SHRM-CP) is a plus
- Proficiency with HRIS and ATS platforms (e.g., ADP, Workforce Manager, SuccessFactors)
- Knowledge of basic HR policies and compliance requirements
- Some domestic travel as required
This role is critical in ensuring operational excellence and consistency in HR processes while contributing to a positive employee and candidate experience. The HR Generalist serves as a key enabler for the broader HR team, allowing strategic functions to scale effectively.
Bring your passion and commitment to Zygo, where we are curious, collaborative, persistent, and confident, where safety and quality guide every step of our journey. Grow with us as we solve complex challenges, inspire confidence, and drive excellence in manufacturing.
Are you ready to expand the boundaries of possibility, simplify the complex, and embody the values that define our success? We welcome your unique perspective and invite you to join us!
We offer competitive compensation, benefits, retirement (401k), and paid time off programs. Compensation and position level will be set based on experience with an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and bring value.
Due to the nature of Zygo Navitar's programs and products, applicants must have the legal right to work in the US and additionally must be legally authorized to access export-controlled information and source code.
Compensation
Employee Type: Salaried
Currency: USD
Salary Minimum: 70,000
Salary Maximum: 90,000
Incentive: No
Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market/business considerations, and geographic location.
For more information on AMETEK's competitive benefits, please click here.
AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5 billion.
AMETEK is committed to making a safer, sustainable, and more productive world a reality. We use differentiated technology solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We employ 22,000 colleagues, in 35 countries, that are grounded by our core values: Ethics and Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Inclusion, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility. AMETEK is a component of the S&P 500.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should call 1 (866) 263-8359.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Human Resources
Map your HR specialty to SOC codes
Your H-1B petition is tied to a specific Standard Occupational Classification code. HR Managers, Compensation Analysts, and Training Specialists each carry different DOL prevailing-wage levels, so confirm your exact SOC code before negotiating your offer.
Verify your degree field supports specialty occupation
USCIS requires your degree to directly relate to the HR role. A business administration or psychology degree typically satisfies this, but a general arts degree may trigger a Request for Evidence. Check your credential against the O*NET profile for your target title.
Target employers with existing LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter HR roles by employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for your occupation code, so you're applying to companies that have already cleared the DOL process for roles like yours.
Ask about cap-exempt entities during HR job interviews
Nonprofits, universities, and government research organizations are cap-exempt, meaning your H-1B petition skips the annual lottery entirely. When interviewing for in-house HR roles at these institutions, confirm their cap-exempt status before the offer stage.
Confirm the employer's E-Verify enrollment before signing
Your employer must be E-Verify enrolled to hire you on H-1B status. HR departments at large firms typically manage this, but smaller companies sometimes aren't enrolled. Confirm enrollment status before you accept an offer to avoid filing delays.
Time your offer letter to the USCIS filing window
H-1B cap petitions can only be filed for an October 1 start date, with registration opening in March. If your HR offer comes in late spring, your employer needs to file during the next cycle, extending your wait by up to a year.
H-1B Visa Human Resources: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Human Resources jobs qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, many HR roles qualify when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field like human resources management, business administration, or industrial-organizational psychology. Titles such as HR Manager, Compensation Analyst, Talent Acquisition Specialist, and HR Business Partner regularly receive H-1B approval. Generalist roles with no clear degree requirement can face USCIS scrutiny, so the job description must specify a qualifying degree field.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for HR professionals?
Large technology companies, multinational corporations, financial services firms, and healthcare systems are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for HR roles. Universities and nonprofit research institutions are cap-exempt sponsors worth prioritizing because their petitions skip the annual lottery. You can browse HR roles at verified H-1B-sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate, filtered by employers with active Labor Condition Application filing history.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for HR jobs on H-1B?
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your specific HR occupation code and work location before USCIS approves the petition. Prevailing wages for HR roles vary significantly by SOC code and metro area. You can look up the applicable wage level using the OFLC Wage Search tool before entering salary negotiations, which helps you assess whether an offer is realistic for sponsorship.
Can an HR professional switch employers while on H-1B status?
Yes, H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer once your transfer petition is filed, without waiting for USCIS approval, as long as your original H-1B was approved and you've been in valid status. Your new employer files a new I-129 petition and a fresh LCA. HR professionals changing from one in-house HR role to another generally have straightforward transfers if the SOC codes align.
Does the H-1B lottery affect HR job seekers differently than other fields?
The 85,000-slot annual cap and random lottery apply to most HR roles the same way they apply to other cap-subject occupations. One meaningful difference is that HR roles at universities, nonprofits, and government-affiliated research organizations are cap-exempt, so those employers can file at any time of year. If you're targeting corporate HR positions, registering with multiple cap-subject employers in a single lottery cycle isn't permitted, so employer selection matters.