Materials Test Technician

Element has an opportunity for a Materials Test Technician to join our rapidly expanding team. As a member of the operations team in one of the various laboratories across Element. 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.

Salary: $20- $25/hr DOE 

Responsibilities:

• Perform metallurgical sectioning, mounting, polishing, and routine evaluations
  
• Evaluations include grain size, coating thickness, machining artefacts, hardness (ASTM E8, E18, E112, E384, E571)
  
• Possess the ability to work alone periodically throughout the work day requiring minimal oversite
  
• Ability to read and understand customer specifications and perform the testing required
  
• Able to develop a proven ability to set up and perform a variety of tests according to customer specifications under the supervision and technical input of Senior Engineer or Manager
  
• Experience with tensile, hardness, or other mechanical testing is a plus
  
• Overtime is periodically required. Weekend coverage is required ~4 weekends per year.

• Must be US Citizen. Position requires security clearance plus clearance of 7 year background check and 10 panel drug screen.
• HS Diploma, GED, or equivalent. 4 year degree in a  science field is preferred.
• Functional in Microsoft office products (TEAMS, Word, Excel, Windows 10 and newer operating systems)
• Equipment experience: abrasive saws, precision saws, metallographic mounting presses and polishers. Microscope, optical and digital. Scanning electron microscope is a plus.
• Laboratory experience: safety practices; handling chemicals, beakers, bottles; hot surfaces; small work areas with multiple workers in the same space.
• Aerospace manufacturing or laboratory experience. NADCAP/ISO 17025 is a plus.
• Previous lab experience or NADCAP/ISO accreditation exposure is preferred.
  Self driven with excellent time management skills.

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 7,500 brilliant minds operating from 200 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.

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.