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Manufacturing Test Technician (Beam Test)

Danaher Corporation

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Location
Nicholasville, KY
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Job overview

The Manufacturing Test Technician, also called the Beam Test Technician, sets up and operates automatic and semi-automatic machines and related equipment. The role is part of the Hardware component manufacturing team in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and is on-site. The technician interacts with technical equipment to check product performance, monitors process controls against specifications, and logs data according to CGMPs and a Quality Management System.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Precise Equipment OperationMicroscopesLathesUltrasonic CleanersLasersChemical HandlingISO 13485CGMPQuality Management SystemsLiftingStanding

Qualifications

Associate Degree or Relevant Experience0-1+ Years Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Paid Time Off

Full job description

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, one of Danaher’s (https://danaher.com/our-businesses) 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in clinical diagnostics, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has challenged convention to elevate the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving patient health for more than 90 years. Our diagnostic solutions are used in routine and complex clinical testing, and are used in hospitals, reference and research laboratories, and physician offices around the world. Every hour around the world, more than one million tests are run on Beckman Coulter Diagnostics systems, impacting 1.2 billion patients and more than three million clinicians per year. From uncovering the next clinical breakthrough, to rapid and reliable sample analysis, to more rigorous decision making—we are enabling clinicians to deliver the best possible care to their patients with improved efficiency, clinical confidence, adaptive collaboration, and accelerated intelligence.

Learn about the Danaher Business Syste m which makes everything possible.

The Manufacturing Test Technician, aka Beam Test Technician is responsible for setting up and operating automatic and semi-automatic machines and related equipment.

This position reports to the Director of Manufacturing and is part of the Hardware component manufacturing team located in Nicholasville, KY and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Interact with highly technical equipment to ensure product performance

  • Monitor meters, gauges, valves, flow rations, temperatures, pressures, and related controls to ensure adherences to production/process specifications

  • Log data by following CGMPs and a Quality Management System

The essential requirements of the job include

  • Associates degree with 0-1+ years of experience OR multiple years of relevant experience

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role

  • Ability to work with highly precise equipment including, microscopes, lathes, Ultrasonic cleaners, lasers and chemicals.

  • Ability to lift, move or carry equipment up to 10lb, and stand for 7 hours per day.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

  • Ability to travel to Florida during training

  • ISO 13485 or CGMP  experience

  • Experience within a Quality Management System

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info (https://leplb1040.upoint.alight.com/ah-angular-afirst-web/#/web/danaher/cp/preauth-home) .

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Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.

The U.S. EEO posters are available here (http://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

For candidates who are based outside of New York City or who are applying for roles outside of New York City, for more information about conditions of any job offer please click here (https://jobs.danaher.com/global/en/notice-to-us-candidates-based-in/applying-for-roles-outside-nyc) .

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact:1-202-419-7762 or [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 1,560 open Manufacturing Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$54–81K/yr212 salary ranges
  • US median$24–29/hr748 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 32 open Manufacturing Technician jobs in Kentucky and 1,560 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Kentucky
Experience
This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Manufacturing Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 863 postings).
Education
2 of the 1,560 open Manufacturing Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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