Senior Test Technician

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

Responsibilities

• Mechanical testing, primarily of metallic materials (tension, compression, bending, shear, impact, hardness)
• Interpretation of specifications and client requirements
• Operating complex mechanical testing equipment
• Maintaining accurate and systematic records
• Performing other duties to fulfill the demands of the laboratory
• 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
• Internal and external communication
• Managing flow of work and timelines to meet due dates

Requirements

• Educated to a good general standard including English and Math
• Associate’s Degree level or equivalent in mechanical or materials science or another relevant materials-related discipline
• Hands-on job sometimes involving safely lifting heavy objects up to 50 pounds
• Experience working within a mechanical testing environment is advantageous
• Understanding of a recognized Quality Management System such as ISO 17025 is beneficial
• Working knowledge of ASTM, ISO, or equivalent mechanical testing standards

Skills

• Self-motivated with the ability to multitask, 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
• Ability to work alone the majority of the workday, requiring assistance only for clarification or confirmation of test procedures
• Effectively manages time and practices accountability for testing to be performed
• Ability to take testing projects from start to finish, completing each step properly
• Ability to hold team members accountable for testing requirements
• Advanced ability to read and understand customer specifications and perform testing in accordance with them
• 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

Pay

$26–$38/hour, depending on experience.

About the Company

Element is one of the fastest-growing testing, inspection, and certification businesses in the world. Globally, we have more than 9,000 employees operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Our purpose is to "Make tomorrow safer than today." When failure in use is not an option, we help customers ensure 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 supports customers in achieving assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

Despite our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower employees to take charge of their careers and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development. Industries worldwide depend on our care, attention to detail, and absolute accuracy.