Senior Test Technician

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Senior Test Technician to join our rapidly expanding team. As a member of the operations team, the Senior Test Technician performs a variety of routine and non‑routine testing assignments within the department assigned and ensures timely and accurate test results under minimal direct supervision. The technician must be proficient in core business skills including compliance to established safety rules, code of conduct, and company policies and procedures.

Salary: $26–$38/hr DOE.

• Mechanical testing of polymer and metallic materials
• Interpretation of internal and client requirements
• Operating complex mechanical testing equipment
• Maintaining accurate and systematic records
• Performing other duties to fulfill laboratory demands
• Performing general duties in accordance with Element's internal procedures, Quality and Health and Safety systems
• Application of instrumentation and setting up complex data capture equipment
• Report writing, data interpretation and analysis

• Good general education including English and Math
• Associate Degree level or equivalent in mechanical or materials science or another relevant discipline
• Hands‑on job experience
• Experience working within a mechanical testing environment is advantageous
• Understanding of a recognized Quality Management Systems such as ISO 17025 is beneficial
• Working knowledge of ASTM, ISO, or equivalent mechanical testing standards
• Self‑motivated Test Technician able to multi‑task, organize and work under pressure in a busy commercial mechanical test laboratory
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Team‑player attitude
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills

• Ability to perform lower to intermediate complex testing
• Can work alone for the majority of the day; requires assistance only for clarification or confirmation of test procedures
• Effectively manages time and practices accountability for testing
• Can take testing projects from start to finish, completing each step properly
• Can hold team members and peer technicians accountable for testing requirements
• Advanced ability to read and understand customer specifications and perform testing accordingly
• Ability to construct and maintain test fixtures and other laboratory equipment to ensure proper working order based on client needs
• Ability to maintain and repair equipment
• Ensures timely and accurate results with little supervision and technical input

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’. When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose.

From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access. While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”. All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work‑related criteria and without regard for age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or any other characteristic in accordance with applicable governing laws.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Quality Assurance

Industrial Machinery Manufacturing, Public Safety, and International Trade and Development