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Machine Shop Supervisor

Element Materials Technology

Duarte, CAJob$32–42/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$32–42/hr
Location
Duarte, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Element Materials Technology is seeking a Machine Shop Supervisor for its operations team. The role supervises machinists across two shifts and performs machining work to customer specifications, supporting safe, high-quality, timely delivery of customer specimens. The supervisor also mentors and trains machinists, maintains equipment, schedules preventative maintenance, and records dimensions in accordance with quality assurance requirements.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Machining, nice to haveMachinist Mentoring, nice to haveTechnical Communication, nice to haveLaboratory Safety, nice to haveMachine Shop Safety, nice to haveMeasuring Instruments, nice to haveDimensional Concepts, nice to haveComputer Skills, nice to haveAlgebra and Geometry, nice to haveStanding for Long Periods, nice to haveLifting 50+ Lbs, nice to have

Qualifications

HS Diploma or GED, nice to haveBachelor's Degree or 6-8 Years Experience, nice to have

Full job description

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Machine Shop Supervisor to join our rapidly expanding team. As a member of the operations team, the Machining position performs a variety of routine and non-routine machining assignments within the department assigned and insures timely and accurate test results under 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.

Salary: $32 $42/hr DOE

Responsibilities

  • Ability to mentor and train machinists who have less experience through effective communication of technical data

  • Ability to explain machining techniques and specifications to a larger group drawing from past experience and knowledge as an expert on best practices and customer specifications

  • Supervises a team of machinists across two shifts in support of safe, high quality, on time delivery of customer specimens.

  • Designs, sets-up and performs a majority machining tasks according to customer specifications and requirements

  • Requires little supervision and technical input of a Department Manager, Principal Machinist, Project Coordinator or Engineer

  • Maintains equipment and schedules preventative maintenance

  • Gathers and records dimensions in accordance with quality assurance requirements

Skills / Qualifications

  • Working knowledge of laboratory safety

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

  • May possess advanced engineering qualifications, normally at Bachelor degree level and/or 6-8 years of significant experience in a machine shop environment

  • Depth of understanding related to machining concepts, measuring instruments and dimensional concepts.

  • Working knowledge of machine shop safety protocol

  • Strong computer skills.

  • Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry a plus

Physical Demands:

  • Frequency of required physical force: Moderate

  • Lifting requirements: lifting <50 lbs. often and > 50 lbs. on occasion

  • Ability to stand on feet for long periods of time

  • Ability to lift 50+lbs periodically

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.

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Job Locations US-CA-Duarte

ID 2026-20367

How this job compares

Set against the 683 open Machinist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$32–42/hr
  • California median$27–40/hr57 hourly ranges
  • US median$27–36/hr317 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $37/hr, is 10% above the California median midpoint ($34/hr) — in the middle half of Machinist hourly ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 76 open Machinist jobs in California and 683 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Machinist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (468 postings).
Education
2 of the 683 open Machinist jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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