Quality Coordinator

Element Materials Technology; Anaheim, Northern (CA, KY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Element Materials Technology's Anaheim laboratory seeks a Quality Coordinator to own and advance the quality system, ensuring ISO 17025/9001 compliance and robust documentation. This role partners with site leadership and technical teams to drive audits, CAPAs, and performance metrics while fostering continuous improvement across the lab.

The qualified candidate will bring 3+ years in quality roles, strong detail orientation, and clear communication.

Qualifications

• Candidates should have quality-focused experience in lab or manufacturing environments.
• Familiarity with ISO 17025 and ISO 9001 standards is preferred.
• Experience supporting audits, documentation, or quality systems.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and proactive follow-up abilities.
• Capable of working independently and managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily quality assurance and quality system activities.
• Support and maintain ISO 17025 and ISO 9001 compliance.
• Coordinate internal and external audits.
• Assist with corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs).
• Monitor quality metrics, documentation, and records.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the laboratory.
• Collaborate with technical, operational, and management teams to ensure quality requirements are met.
• Serve as a trusted resource for quality-related questions and processes.

Skills

Quality-focused environment

ISO 17025 / ISO 9001 knowledge

Audits & quality systems

Attention to detail

Communication & follow-up

Independent work & prioritization

Job description

Overview

Are you a detail-oriented quality professional who thrives on process improvement, compliance, and making a real impact? Element has an exciting opportunity for a Quality Coordinator to join our Anaheim materials testing laboratory.

This is more than a quality support role. It's an opportunity to take ownership of a critical function and grow into the subject matter expert responsible for maintaining and advancing our quality systems. If you enjoy solving problems, working cross-functionally, and ensuring things are done the right way, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation: $33.00-$36.00 per hour

Responsibilities

As our Quality Coordinator, you'll play a key role in supporting and maintaining the laboratory's quality management system. Working closely with site leadership and technical teams, you'll:

• Manage daily quality assurance and quality system activities
• Support and maintain compliance with ISO 17025 and ISO 9001 standards
• Coordinate internal and external audits
• Assist with corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs)
• Monitor quality metrics, documentation, and records
• Help drive continuous improvement initiatives across the laboratory
• Collaborate with technical, operational, and management teams to ensure quality requirements are met
• Serve as a trusted resource for quality-related questions and processes

Over time, you'll have the opportunity to take increasing ownership of the site's quality system and become the primary quality point of contact.

Skills / Qualifications

• Experience working within a quality-focused environment
• Knowledge of ISO 17025 and/or ISO 9001 standards
• Experience supporting audits, documentation, or quality systems
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and follow‑up abilities
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities

Ideal background:

• Approximately 3+ years of quality-related experience
• Aerospace, manufacturing, laboratory, engineering, or technical industry experience is a plus
• Candidates with broader quality backgrounds are encouraged to apply, even if they have not worked directly with ISO 17025

Company Overview

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 have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

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 the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.