H-1B Visa Technical Coordinator Jobs
Technical Coordinator jobs with H-1B visa sponsorship sit at the intersection of project management and technical operations, typically requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, or a related field. Sponsoring employers file a certified LCA and I-129 petition before your start date, with status granted for up to three years.
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At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.
Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!
Find out more about the many benefits we offer:
Act as coordinator for activities for the site to maximize all downtime associated in the production areas. Ensure work notifications are entered, converted to orders, planned, scheduled, and executed in the most effective manner relative to schedule and costs. This includes PM’s, CAPEX, outages, daily work, and industrial cleaning activities. Position will support the creation of and maintain a prioritized work list from production, ensure communication between maintenance, materials management, and production for schedules, coordinate delivery of critical components, and assist with resource needs to all stakeholders. This includes gatekeeping for all new orders and backlog management for the site. Also, this role will track and report OEE for the production lines for the site. Finally, this person will lead the energy team, monitoring energy consumption and recommend efforts to reduce energy consumption including implementation of ISO-50001.
REQUIREMENTS
- Manage downtime on production equipment to minimize impact to available hours.
This includes:
a. Gatekeeping and Backlog Management – Ensure that Maintenance and Production Planning schedules are coordinated to maximize downtime in the plant.
b. Schedule daily work in the plant for the technical team and publish the schedule in conjunction with the production schedule.
c. Product Changeovers – Maximize effectiveness of changeovers, cleanouts, scheduled maintenance work.
d. Scheduled outages – schedule work to fill allotted downtime with the maximum amount of resources and tasks to improve reliability of equipment (including major turnarounds).
e. Unplanned equipment availability – ensure a list of opportunity work that is planned and ready to implement if availability arises.
f. Bad actors – Identify “bad actors” by tracking repeated repair costs or downtime and assist in development of long-term solutions.
g. Compliance – Place priority on scheduling compliance work dictated by Mechanical Integrity, ISO, GMP, etc.
- Monitor energy consumption, reduction, and reporting efforts for the site. Act as liaison between the site utilities and Evonik teams regarding energy. Lead implementation and monitoring of ISO-50001 Implementation for ETO.
- Ensure compliance with all environmental, health, and safety policies and applicable governmental regulations.
- Monitor KPI’s with production, maintenance, and materials management to track opportunities for improvement. Track OEE for the site on production lines and provide recommendations for improvements to site.
- Complete other activities as assigned.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline required. Minimum of seven years of progressive industrial maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience with demonstrated leadership and technical achievement.
Skills/Training:
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and engage technical teams in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing business priorities.
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills. Highly developed conflict management skills.
- Ability to relate to and work with various personalities across multiple departments.
- Working knowledge of safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements applicable to industrial operations.
- Experience utilizing reliability improvement tools, including Root Cause Analysis, Failure Elimination, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Project; SAP experience is essential.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, including 5S, Kaizen, A3 Problem Solving, and Continuous Improvement methodologies preferred.
- Familiar with ISO programs and compliance; trained as an auditor is a plus.
The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.
Your Application
To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html.
Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Your Talent Acquisition Manager:
Emma Martinez
Company is Evonik Corporation
What we offer
At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.
Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!
Find out more about the many benefits we offer:
Act as coordinator for activities for the site to maximize all downtime associated in the production areas. Ensure work notifications are entered, converted to orders, planned, scheduled, and executed in the most effective manner relative to schedule and costs. This includes PM’s, CAPEX, outages, daily work, and industrial cleaning activities. Position will support the creation of and maintain a prioritized work list from production, ensure communication between maintenance, materials management, and production for schedules, coordinate delivery of critical components, and assist with resource needs to all stakeholders. This includes gatekeeping for all new orders and backlog management for the site. Also, this role will track and report OEE for the production lines for the site. Finally, this person will lead the energy team, monitoring energy consumption and recommend efforts to reduce energy consumption including implementation of ISO-50001.
REQUIREMENTS
- Manage downtime on production equipment to minimize impact to available hours.
This includes:
a. Gatekeeping and Backlog Management – Ensure that Maintenance and Production Planning schedules are coordinated to maximize downtime in the plant.
b. Schedule daily work in the plant for the technical team and publish the schedule in conjunction with the production schedule.
c. Product Changeovers – Maximize effectiveness of changeovers, cleanouts, scheduled maintenance work.
d. Scheduled outages – schedule work to fill allotted downtime with the maximum amount of resources and tasks to improve reliability of equipment (including major turnarounds).
e. Unplanned equipment availability – ensure a list of opportunity work that is planned and ready to implement if availability arises.
f. Bad actors – Identify “bad actors” by tracking repeated repair costs or downtime and assist in development of long-term solutions.
g. Compliance – Place priority on scheduling compliance work dictated by Mechanical Integrity, ISO, GMP, etc.
- Monitor energy consumption, reduction, and reporting efforts for the site. Act as liaison between the site utilities and Evonik teams regarding energy. Lead implementation and monitoring of ISO-50001 Implementation for ETO.
- Ensure compliance with all environmental, health, and safety policies and applicable governmental regulations.
- Monitor KPI’s with production, maintenance, and materials management to track opportunities for improvement. Track OEE for the site on production lines and provide recommendations for improvements to site.
- Complete other activities as assigned.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline required. Minimum of seven years of progressive industrial maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience with demonstrated leadership and technical achievement.
Skills/Training:
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and engage technical teams in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing business priorities.
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills. Highly developed conflict management skills.
- Ability to relate to and work with various personalities across multiple departments.
- Working knowledge of safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements applicable to industrial operations.
- Experience utilizing reliability improvement tools, including Root Cause Analysis, Failure Elimination, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Project; SAP experience is essential.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, including 5S, Kaizen, A3 Problem Solving, and Continuous Improvement methodologies preferred.
- Familiar with ISO programs and compliance; trained as an auditor is a plus.
The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.
Your Application
To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html.
Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Your Talent Acquisition Manager:
Emma Martinez
Company is Evonik Corporation
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Technical Coordinator
Align your degree to the role
USCIS evaluates whether your degree field directly relates to Technical Coordinator duties. A degree in engineering, IT, or project management is the strongest foundation. If your field is adjacent, gather coursework transcripts showing technical systems, coordination, or operations content.
Look up prevailing wages before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing rate for your worksite location. Run your SOC code and zip code through the OFLC Wage Search before salary discussions so you know the floor the employer is legally required to meet.
Find sponsors with active LCA filing history
Target employers who have already certified LCAs for Technical Coordinator or similar coordination roles. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified H-1B LCA sponsorship history, searchable by role and city, so you can focus applications where sponsorship is already established.
Confirm each worksite gets its own LCA
If the role involves multiple office locations or client sites, each worksite requires a separately certified LCA. Raise this with your hiring contact early. Employers who have sponsored before understand this requirement; first-time sponsors sometimes need prompting from HR or immigration counsel.
Use O*NET to document specialty occupation duties
Pull the O*NET occupation profile for your SOC code and identify tasks that require degree-level technical knowledge. Cross-referencing your job description against O*NET strengthens the specialty occupation argument in your I-129 petition if USCIS issues a Request for Evidence.
File premium processing if your start date is firm
If your offer has a fixed start date and the cap selection cycle has closed, ask your employer about premium processing for the I-129. USCIS expedites adjudication under premium processing, reducing the risk that a delayed decision disrupts your onboarding timeline.
H-1B Visa Technical Coordinator: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technical Coordinator role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, when the position genuinely requires at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, or a directly related technical field. The employer must document in the I-129 petition that degree-level knowledge is a normal requirement for the role, not just preferred. Generalist coordinator titles without technical degree requirements do not qualify, so the job description must clearly reflect specialized duties.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Coordinator roles?
Search Migrate Mate to browse Technical Coordinator positions at employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history. This lets you filter out companies that have never sponsored, saving time you'd otherwise spend deep in the application process before learning sponsorship isn't available. Focus on employers in engineering, construction technology, IT services, and manufacturing, where Technical Coordinator roles most commonly carry degree requirements.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Technical Coordinator role changes scope significantly?
A material change in job duties, worksite, or salary can require the employer to file an amended I-129 petition and a new certified LCA before the change takes effect. If the amended role still qualifies as a specialty occupation under the same or a related SOC code, status continues. Confirm with your employer's immigration counsel before accepting any significant role change.
Can my H-1B for a Technical Coordinator role be extended beyond six years?
H-1B status is capped at six years total across initial approval and extensions. Extensions beyond six years are only available if you have an approved I-140 immigrant petition or a pending PERM labor certification that has been filed for at least 365 days. Without one of those green card milestones in place, you must leave and reset your H-1B eligibility before reapplying.
What documents should I prepare before my employer starts the H-1B petition for a Technical Coordinator position?
Gather your academic transcripts and degree certificates, a detailed resume showing technical coordination experience, any professional certifications relevant to the role, and your current immigration documents including passport and I-94. Your employer's immigration attorney may also request a credential evaluation if your degree is from a non-U.S. institution, which O*NET and USCIS guidance use to establish U.S. degree equivalency for specialty occupation purposes.