Senior Test Technician - Electronics

Overview:

Element has an opportunity for an experienced Senior Test Technician - Electronics at our Element Anaheim materials testing laboratory. Reporting to the General Manager, you are an essential member of the team and responsible for overseeing program management including planning, scheduling, and assigning projects and establishing successful relationships with customers. The Senior Test Technician - Electronics will also consult and provide engineering design work per customer specifications. Direct experience in Electronics industry is preferrable.

In this role, you will interact with clients, accreditation bodies and will be responsible for advising operational colleagues of the importance of quality, accuracy and integrity in the provision of the inspection and testing services we provide.

Salary: $36- $41/hr DOE

Responsibilities:

Requires little supervision and technical input of a Department Manager, Principal Technician, or Engineer

Possesses the ability to mentor and train technicians who have less experience through effective communication of technical data

Ability to transfer technical knowledge/requirements and successfully satisfy and meet customer specifications

Designs, sets-up and performs a variety of test according to customer specifications and requirements

Provide leadership and direct all activities of the engineering department including planning and managing technical performance to ensure quality and business objectives are achieved

Provide expertise necessary to assist in the designing, planning, execution, analysis, and reporting phases of test programs in accordance with customer specifications

Participate in the preparation of proposals, proposal work statements and project specifications

Responsible for ensuring work is accomplished in a timely manner

Maintain contact and relationships with customer contacts and participate as necessary to cultivate new accounts.

Ensure Quality System requirements are being always met by all department personnel

Ensure compliance with all Company policies

Ensure adherence to all local, state, and federal laws pertaining to safety, environment, and corporate governance

Ensures productivity including performance management (OKRs)

Skills / Qualifications:

Working knowledge of laboratory safety

HS diploma or GED certificate preferred. College or vocational school coursework welcomed

At least 5-7 years of work-related experience in the electronics industry

In-depth understanding of testing concepts

Experience with printed circuit boards a plus

Experience with various benchtop electronic equipment, such as meters, power supplies, etc.

Experience with computer modeling, simulation and circuit analysis is desirable.

Familiarity with software programs such as LabVIEW, Analyzes and compiles testing data from the tests performed

Previous experience leading and managing projects

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Ability to review performance, identify problems and implement solutions

An understanding of ISO 17025 is desirable but not essential

Ability to effectively collaborate and lead cross-functional teams that achieve requirements/goals

Other Skills and Abilities:

Possesses the ability to perform lower to intermediate complex testing.

Ability to work alone the majority of the work day; 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.

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:

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.