
Order Entry Technician
Los Angeles, CAJob$16–25/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.
You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.
Watch jobs like this. New roles like this one near Los Angeles, CA, by email.
Don't just apply. Show up ready.
Olive works from this exact posting.
At a glance
Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.
Job overview
Element Materials Technology seeks an Order Entry Technician to enter incoming test requests and review customer purchase orders for compliance. The role verifies paperwork, communicates with customers about discrepancies and order status, and coordinates with production and laboratory personnel. It also includes occasional quality-administration tasks and screening lab visitors. A two-year technical program or equivalent education and work experience is required; relevant experience in logistics, customer service, materials testing, or manufacturing is desired.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Overview
Element has an opportunity for an Order Entry Technician to perform order entry of incoming test requests and other scheduled tasks under direction of Office Manager or detailed procedures. Perform technical review of client PO’s to ensure compliance.
Salary: $16- $25/hr DOE
Responsibilities
-
Review customer PO’s, and enter work orders into the D365 system
-
Verify that orders received include all necessary paperwork to allow for proper processing of samples
-
Contact customers over PO discrepancies or to obtain additional test detail
-
Serve as a point of contact for customers, assisting them with order status updates
-
Work with Production and Laboratory personnel to expedite work
-
Alert staff to expedite/ rush work and follow-up on issues
-
Promptly address revised PO’s for work in progress by entering the new PO’s into the system and communicating changes to
-
appropriate department supervisor
-
Interact with internal departments on questions or issues related to particular projects
-
Assists with coordination of production, quality and process improvements
-
Will occasionally function in the role of Quality Administrator for typing certifications and emailing to the customer
-
Screen customers entering the lab and ensure that they are properly escorted to the appropriate POC in the lab
-
Ensures all work is performed in accordance with company safety and quality policies and procedures and regulatory agency regulations
-
Other duties as assigned by supervisor or lab management
Skills / Qualifications
To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required
-
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
-
Completion of a two-year technical program or equivalent combination of education and work experience required
-
Relevant experience in logistics, customer service or a materials testing or manufacturing environment desired
This position requires access to export-controlled commodities, technical data, technology, software, and services. U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), or U.S. Government export authorization 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.
Software Powered by ICIMS (https://element-ext-us.icims.com/jobs/20339/order-entry-technician/job?mode=apply&apply=yes&in\_iframe=1&hashed=-336029975)
Job Locations US-CA-Los Angeles
ID 2026-20339
How this job compares
Set against the 33,028 open Customer Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$16–25/hr
- California median$20–24/hr1,900 hourly ranges
- US median$18–23/hr16,362 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $20.50/hr, is 7% below the California median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the middle half of Customer Service hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,576 open Customer Service jobs in California and 33,028 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Home Depot220 open
- Walgreens170 open
- U.S. Bank119 open
- Experience
- Customer Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (8,638 postings).
- Education
- 1,364 of the 33,028 open Customer Service jobs (4%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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.
Prepare for this role
You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.



