Laboratory Engineer

UL Solutions; Santiago de Querétaro; Hybrid; MXN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

UL Solutions in Querétaro, Mexico seeks an Engineering Management professional to lead simple test programs, define test plans, and ensure timely, accurate reporting. You will interact with customers, coordinate with engineering and lab staff, and operate advanced testing equipment to evaluate complex samples.

The role emphasizes advanced English communication, multi-project leadership, and a drive to improve testing efficiency while maintaining high quality and customer service standards.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Engineering (related field) or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated Advanced English Skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with high quality and customer service.
• Experience collaborating with Engineering and Laboratory personnel to complete projects on time.
• Ability to analyze special testing needs.
• Effective communication and customer interaction skills.
• Willingness to be innovative, creative, and teamwork oriented.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and willingness to incorporate automation into testing.

Responsibilities

• Follow complex defined test plans and datasheets under supervision.
• Evaluate test performance and sample operation to assess results.
• Record, explain test results and complete test reports.
• Serve as Project Lead for simple test programs with necessary assistance.
• Communicate project status and results as needed.
• Define test plan, ensure report accuracy, meet deadlines, manage related activities.
• Interact with customers during setup and operation for proper evaluation.
• Operate and maintain complex test equipment to measure samples.
• Integrate basic continuous improvement concepts for processes and equipment.

Job description

• Follows complex defined test plans and datasheets with necessary supervision /support.
• Evaluates test performance and sample operation to properly evaluate test results.
• Records and explains test results and completes test report.
• Serves as Project Lead for simple test programs as assigned with the necessary assistance.
• Communicates project status and results as needed.
• Holds responsibility for defining test plan, report completion and accuracy, meeting of agreed deadlines, and managing project related activities.
• Examines complex customer samples with help and learns to operate appropriate tests for each case.
• Communicates with customers during setup and operation to ensure proper evaluation.
• Understands specific test standards and product technology for scope of responsibility.
• Directs, builds and/or adapts simple test setups and equipment for assigned work, based on test plans and instructions from engineering.
• Operates and maintains complex test equipment appropriately to measure and test customer samples.
• Performs complex maintenance on designated test equipment and laboratory area.
• May perform complex calibration of test equipment Integrates basic continuous improvement concepts and techniques for both process and equipment.
• Communicates with management and technical staff to provide suggestions for new equipment, processes, and forms to improve accuracy and efficiencies.
• Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices..
• Other duties as directed.

Responsibilities

• Experience in Engineering Management Projects and Laboratory Testing
• Ability to maintain conversations with internal stakeholders in English to share ECD´s and Testing clarifications
• Develop testing protocols to improve efficiency, consistency, and training materials
• Partner with FUS Champions to develop an action plan to reduce retesting
• Increased NMX-NOM ISO 17025 accreditation scope.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Engineering (in related field of work) or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated Advanced English Skills
• At least 3 years experience in both Engineering and Laboratory Testing
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining high quality and exceptional customer service.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully partner with Engineering and other Laboratory Personnel to complete projects in a timely manner with high quality.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze special testing needs.
• Effective communication skills and ability to interact with customers.
• Demonstrated ability to be innovative and creative Desire to work in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office suite is a must Ability to incorporate automation into day-to-day testing.

What You’ll Experience Working For ULS

UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we’re still leading the way. From day one, we’ve blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.

That’s where you come in — because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.

This is more than a job. It’s a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a safer, sustainable world today — and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you’ll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.

Everyone here is unique. But we’re also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.

Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future — one where everyone benefits.

Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com

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About Us

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.

About The Team

Our global network of 80+ laboratories is constantly evolving, because the world around us is always changing. We embrace this — we invest in improving our equipment and our skills so we’re one step ahead of the market. One day we could be setting up a burn test and the next, simulating a tornado. And because we’re always evolving, your career will evolve alongside us, whether you’re working on brand new technology or connecting with experts around the globe. Join our team, drive the growth of our organization and deliver real change — in a changing world.