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Test Technician

Element Materials Technology

Minneapolis, MNJob$26–40/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$26–40/hr
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Element Materials Technology is seeking a Test Technician to join its dynamics department. The role performs product tests to customer specifications and supports project planning, report preparation, equipment maintenance and calibration, and health, safety, and quality standards within an accredited 17025 quality management system. The posting seeks a science graduate or higher qualification, two years of relevant experience, physical fitness, quality focus, and strong organizational and communication skills.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Physical Fitness, requiredQuality Focus, requiredTeamwork, requiredOrganization, requiredCommunication, requiredProduct Testing, nice to haveEquipment Maintenance, nice to haveEquipment Calibration, nice to have

Qualifications

Science Graduate or Higher, required2 Years Relevant Experience, required

Full job description

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Test Technician to join our rapidly expanding team. At Element, our shared purpose of ‘Making tomorrow safer than today’ is what brings us together. We are energized by our ambition to make the world a better place and create a safer future. This is what sets us apart from the crowd.

Salary: $26- $40/hr DOE

Responsibilities

  • Set up and perform a variety of Product Tests according to customer specifications and requirements

  • Assist and learn all aspects of work in the dynamics department

  • Assist with planning and execution of projects

  • Assist with report preparation

  • Assistance with maintenance and calibration of dynamics department equipment

  • Assistance with Health and Safety and Quality standards within an accredited 17025 quality management systems

  • A willingness to embrace new skills in the above mentioned areas and apply them in a practical context is considered prerequisite

  • Assist with planning and execution of projects

  • Assist with report preparation

  • Assistance with maintenance and calibration of dynamics department equipment

  • Assistance with maintenance of Health and Safety and Quality standards within an accredited 17025 quality management systems.

Skills / Qualifications

  • Science Graduate or higher qualification

  • 2 years relevant experience

  • Physical fitness and ability to withstand the challenging working conditions.

  • Strong and determined quality focus with indefatigable determination to get the job done under the most challenging conditions

  • Self-motivated team playing with excellent organizational and communication skills

  • Willingness to embrace new skills and apply them in a practical context is considered prerequisite

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-MN-Minneapolis

ID 2026-20293

How this job compares

Set against the 734 open Test Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$26–40/hr
  • US median$28–35/hr346 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $33/hr, is 5% above the US median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the middle half of Test Technician hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 13 open Test Technician jobs in Minnesota and 734 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Test Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (519 postings).
Education
4 of the 734 open Test Technician jobs (under 1%) 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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