Environmental Test Support Technician
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Job overview
The Environmental Test Support Technician supports environmental testing in a laboratory, primarily in Cambridge with occasional work in Bedford. The role operates, maintains, and troubleshoots facility equipment; coordinates technical documentation; and handles test equipment and supplies. It also involves cleaning, maintenance, calibration, equipment operation, and documentation, with occasional evening and weekend support. A Secret Government security clearance is required.
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Job Description Summary:
This position requires an environmental test technician to support a wide variety of environmental testing in a dynamic laboratory. Candidate will require expert knowledge to assist and operate, maintain, and troubleshooting facility equipment. The candidate will be responsible for coordinating and implementing technical documentation (calibration, preventive maintenance, drawings, and procedures).
The candidate will be responsible for picking up and delivering test equipment, data, office supplies, and custodial supplies as needed. The ability to work and succeed within a process-oriented setting is critical, as is the ability to thoroughly document and communicate one’s work.
Candidate will primarily support environmental test work in Cambridge, MA but may occasionally be required to support testing in Bedford, MA. Occasional support on evenings and weekends will be needed.
Job Description:
Duties/Responsibilities
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Performs cleaning, maintenance, and or calibration of laboratory and equipment with limited supervision.
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Operates complex equipment in the production of hardware using complex manual skills with training and limited supervision..
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Documents their work consistent with work unit policy with limited supervision.
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Performs focused training to enable progression into higher skilled positions at the discretion of the supervisor.
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Other temporary assignments at the discretion of the supervisor.
Skills/Abilities
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Able to communicate written and verbally.
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Able to use Microsoft office applications.
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Able to perform manual labor and operate automated and semi-automated equipment.
Education
Graduate from a 2 year technical school or 2 years applicable experience.
Experience
Either two years of applicable technical education and two years of applicable experience or four years of applicable experience meets the minimum requirement.
Additional Job Description:
Experience supporting electro-mechanical systems and complex integration and test activities with 2+ years of experience. Must be experienced and skilled in the use of hand and power tools. Must possess strength, stamina, and dexterity to perform strenuous assignments at times.
Must have excellent communication and collaborative skills, organized, detailed oriented, and dedicated to following and complying with procedures including: Military & Aerospace compliance standards. Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs is required. Experience with test and data acquisition software is strongly preferred.
Applicants selected for this position require a Secret Government security clearance.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,144 open Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$51–72K/yr266 salary ranges
- Massachusetts median$23–29/hr59 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 82 open Laboratory Technician jobs in Massachusetts and 2,144 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Mass General Brigham16 open
- Labcorp6 open
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Laboratory Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (902 postings).
- Education
- 276 of the 2,144 open Laboratory Technician jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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