Senior Materials Test Technician

Element Materials Technology; Racine (WI); On-site; USD 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Element Materials Technology is seeking a Senior Test Technician (Materials) to perform routine and non-routine testing with minimal supervision in our laboratory environment in Racine, Wisconsin. The role focuses on ensuring timely and accurate test results for packaging materials and related applications.

Recent graduates are welcome to apply. Compensation is $25/hr to $32/hr DOE, with a focus on hands-on material testing across various core techniques and equipment in a customer-laboratory

Qualifications

• Performs lower to intermediate complex testing.
• Works largely independently with minimal supervision.
• Manages time and ensures testing is completed with accountability.
• Takes testing projects from start to finish.
• Ensures testing meets customer specifications and requirements.
• Constructs and maintains test fixtures based on client needs.
• Maintains and repairs equipment as needed.
• Delivers timely and accurate results with little supervision.
• Occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Preferred knowledge in DSC, DMA, TGA, Melt Flow, ESCR, MTS.
• Materials or Polymer Engineering Degree preferred.
• Recent graduates welcomed to apply.

Skills

Complex testing

Independent work

Time management

End-to-end testing

Accountability

Customer specs

Fixtures maintenance

Equipment maintenance

Quality results

Lifting 50 lbs

Education

Materials/Polymer Eng

Job description

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Senior Test Technician (Materials) to join our rapidly expanding team. As a member of the operations team, the Senior Test Technician position performs a variety of routine and non-routine testing assignments within the department assigned and insures timely and accurate test results under minimal direct supervision. The technician positions must be proficient in a number of core business skills including but not limited to compliance to established safety rules, code of conduct, and company policies and procedures.

Element is a world renown Aerospace Testing Company with clients such as Boeing, SpaceX and Blue Origin.

At Element our shared purpose of ‘Making tomorrow safer than today’ is what brings us together. We are energized by our ambition to make the world a better place and create a safer future for people. This is what sets us (and you, if you join us…) apart from the crowd.

Recent graduates welcomed to apply

Salary: $25/hr-$32/hr DOE

Position located in customer laboratory with testing applications mostly, but not limited to, packaging materials

Responsibilities

• Preferred knowledge in DSC, DMA, TGA, Melt Flow, Environmental Stress Cracking (ESCR), Mechanical Test Strength (MTS)
• Materials or Polymer Engineering Degree preferred.
• Recent graduates welcomed to apply.

Skills / Qualifications

• Possesses the ability to perform lower to intermediate complex testing
• Ability to work alone the majority of the workday; only requiring assistance for clarification or confirmation of test procedures
• Effectively manages time and practices accountability for the testing to be performed.
• Ability to take testing projects from start to finish, completing each step properly.
• Ability to hold team members and peer technicians accountable for the testing requirements.
• Advanced ability to read and understand customer specifications and perform the testing required in accordance with customer specifications.
• 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.
• Occasional lifting of 50 lbs. is required

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.