HR Generalist Talent Operations

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 docus on delivering HR operational support across recruiting, onboaridng the 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 sometime with competing demands.


• Solution-oriented, interpersonally savvied 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.