Mechanical Testing Technician (1st shift)
Fairfield, OHFull-time$20–26/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Mechanical Testing Technician joins Element’s aerospace testing team at its Cincinnati lab, preparing specimens and conducting mechanical tests to customer and industry standards. The role supports testing of aerospace materials and contributes to accurate data collection, equipment upkeep, and laboratory safety. The posting highlights opportunities to develop skills in fatigue, fracture, composite, and extreme-environment testing.
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Overview
Pay: $20–$26/hr. DOE
Shift: | 7AM–5PM, Monday - Friday
Join the aerospace testing team at Element’s Cincinnati lab — a recognized leader in testing, inspection, and product certification with over 40 years of experience. Our 60,000 sq ft facility and 250+ test machines support a broad portfolio of services in metals, composites , and advanced aerospace materials. As part of our aerospace team, your work will contribute directly to testing protocols in extreme environments, fatigue, fracture mechanics, monotonic loading, and more.
Why This Role is Different
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Work with cutting-edge aerospace materials in a world-class lab
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Grow your skills in fatigue, fracture, composite, and extreme-environment testing
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Be part of a globally respected testing, inspection, and certification team
Responsibilities
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Prepare test specimens and run mechanical tests per customer and industry standards
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Collect, record, and verify accurate data
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Inspect, maintain, and calibrate test fixtures and lab equipment
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Uphold laboratory safety, organization, and efficiency
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Work alongside senior technicians or under supervision as needed
Skills / Qualifications
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High school diploma or GED required; technical or lab coursework is a plus
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Mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, and willingness to learn
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Comfortable lifting up to 50 lbs and standing for extended periods
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Basic algebra/geometry skills helpful
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A proactive, team-oriented mindset
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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-OH-Fairfield
ID 2026-20350
How this job compares
Set against the 2,192 open Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$20–26/hr
- Ohio median$20–25/hr63 hourly ranges
- US median$22–26/hr1,066 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $23/hr, is close to the Ohio median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the middle half of Laboratory Technician hourly ranges in Ohio.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 170 open Laboratory Technician jobs in Ohio and 2,192 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
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- Experience
- Laboratory Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (903 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,201 of the 2,192 open Laboratory Technician jobs (55%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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