Repair Technician - Environmental

Element Materials Technology; Newark (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Element Materials Technology in Newark, CA is seeking a full-time Environmental Repair Maintenance Technician to join our Environmental Department. You will work with temperature and humidity chambers and some electrodynamic shakers, applying your maintenance and repair skills to keep testing equipment running.

Responsibilities include preventive maintenance, troubleshooting electrical and refrigeration systems, repairing panels and wiring, and documenting downtime and service reports.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or trade school in HVAC/R, electronics, or industrial maintenance preferred.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• EPA Section 608 Universal Certification required.
• 2–4 years of experience, preferably in a testing lab.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair equipment used to simulate extreme climate and stress conditions (temperature, humidity, altitude, shakers).
• Preventive maintenance, fix electrical faults, service refrigeration systems, restore environmental controls to minimize downtime.
• Inspect equipment, check refrigerant charges, replace worn components.
• Diagnose mechanical, electrical, and refrigeration failures; identify root causes.
• Perform complex repairs including brazing/soldering, replacing compressors, and repairing control panels or wiring harnesses.
• Document downtime, service reports, calibration results, and parts usage.

Skills

HVAC/R maintenance

Electrical troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Repair of refrigeration systems

Education

Associate’s degree or trade school in HVAC/R

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Element is seeking a full-time Environmental Repair Maintenance Technician (temperature and humidity chambers and some electrodynamic shakers) to join our Environmental Department in the Newark, California lab. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your previous experience and technical acumen for a career within the testing and certification industry. You will join a tight-knit and supportive team in a role that requires critical thinking and will give you opportunity to further develop skills and experience.

Element Newark provides accredited dynamics, seismic,environmental simulation, and thermal stress testing to support qualification and compliance throughout the hardware development lifecycle—from prototype through mass production.

Pay range $38-42/hr

Responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair the specialized equipment used to simulate extreme climate and stress conditions (e.g., temperature, humidity, altitude, and shakers)
• Preventive maintenance, fixing electrical faults, servicing single stage and cascade refrigeration systems, restoring precise environmental controls to prevent and minimize testing downtime
• Preventative Maintenance: Perform routine equipment inspections, clean condenser coils, check refrigerant charge levels, and replace worn components to prevent equipment failure
• Troubleshooting & Diagnostics: Identify the root cause of mechanical, electrical, and refrigeration failures (e.g., shutdown/tripping events, temperature / humidity errors, controller operational or communication issues)
• Repairs: Execute complex repairs, including brazing/soldering refrigeration piping, replacing compressors, and repairing control panels or wiring harnesses
• Documentation: Ensure record of equipment downtime, detailed service reports, document calibration results, and maintain logs of parts used and work performed

Skills / Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or trade school certification in HVAC/R, electronics, or industrial maintenance highly preferred
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Certifications: EPA Section 608 Universal Certification (for handling refrigerants) required
• 2-4 years' experience, preferably in a testing lab environment
• Advanced understanding of commercial refrigeration, cascade refrigeration systems, electrical schematics, and high-voltage troubleshooting
• Must have valid driver's license, or ability to obtain prior to beginning employment
• Ability to work required overtime, including weekends as needed, to meet customer deliverables

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.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)