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Associate Test Technician

@ Element Materials Technology

Kitchener, Ontario

$24–$25/hr
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Overview

Element Materials Technology is hiring an Associate Mechanical Test Technician in Kitchener, ON, to run routine and non-routine durability tests on automotive, military and consumer goods parts. The role is hourly at $24-25 CAD, and candidates must be authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship.

Pay:

$24–$25 an hour

Responsibilities:

  • Set up and verify new equipment and test fixturing
  • Execute tests according to specification
  • Keep laboratory notes and records per SOP and QAM
  • Generate reports and enter data in MS Office

Requirements summary:

  • Technical or chemical college degree an asset
  • Excellent oral and written communication
  • Computer skills in MS Office
  • Attention to detail and ability to work under deadlines
  • Lab environment experience an asset

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Employer posting date
2026-10-26
First seen by our source
2026-10-27
Source record updated
2026-10-27

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Job details

SeniorityEntry level
DepartmentQuality assurance
Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingLaboratory, Plant or factory
PositionSitting and standing
Physical demandsphysical moderate · computer moderate
LanguagesEnglish
EducationTrade certificate (preferred)
Fields of studyTechnical, Chemical

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Element Materials Technology

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Full company description

The Element Materials Technology Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection, and certification services for a diverse range of products, materials, and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option. Headquartered in London, UK, Element’s c.9,000 scientists, engineers, and technologists, work across a global network of over 270+ locations, support customers from early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals, and into production ensuring their products are safe and sustainable, and achieve market access. In 2021, Element set out its new, industry leading environmental commitments, adopting science-based targets and committing to net zero emissions across its entire global business by 2035. These environmental commitments follow Element’s achievement of the highest ESG ranking in the testing, inspection and certification industry from Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research and data.

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Reported office locations
  • Davidson Building, 7 Southampton St., Victoria,, London, WC2E 7HA, GB
Business categories
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Building Material
  • Infrastructure
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Aerospace
Other recorded names
  • Element Materials Technology
Specialties
  • Materials Testing
  • Product Qualification Testing
  • Failure Analysis
  • Other Testing & Inspection Services
  • Consulting
  • Certification
  • Calibration
  • Life Sciences Products and Services
  • Connected Technology Testing and Certification
  • Environmental Testing Service
  • Aerospace Testing Services
  • Energy Infrastructure Testing Services
  • Transportation Products and Infrastructure Testing Services
  • and Construction Materials and Building Assurance Services
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The Element Materials Technology Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection, and certification services for a diverse range of products, materials, and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option. Headquartered in London, UK, Element’s c.9,000 scientists, engineers, and technologists, work across a global network of over 270+ locations…

FieldValue
IndustryManufacturing
Company size5,001-10,000 employees
HeadquartersLondon
Organization typePrivately Held
SpecialtiesMaterials TestingProduct Qualification TestingFailure AnalysisOther Testing & Inspection ServicesConsultingCertificationCalibrationLife Sciences Products and ServicesConnected Technology Testing and CertificationEnvironmental Testing Service
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Job description

Overview

Element has an opportunity for Associate Mechanical Test Technician to join our rapidly expanding team in Kitchener, ON. As a member of the operations team, the Associate Test Technician position performs a variety of routine and non-routine tests to determine the durability of interior and exterior automotive, military, and consumer goods parts and components.

If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship, Element Materials Technology will not consider your job application. Any candidate must be lawfully eligible to work in Canada as a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada.

Pay range: $24-25/hr CAD

Responsibilities

  • Set-Up and verification of any new equipment or test fixturing as required
  • Review of technical specifications and customer specific requirements
  • Laboratory notes and record keeping with attention to details per SOP and QAM
  • Computer data entry and report generation in MS Office (Word, Excel and Project)
  • Execute test according to specification
  • Reporting of test or equipment failures and/or safety concerns to Laboratory Supervisor or Laboratory Manager
  • General facility housekeeping
  • Adherence Element Quality System (ISO 17025) and Standard Operating Procedures as assigned

Skills / Qualifications

  • Technical or chemical college degree is a definite asset
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Computer skills
  • Organized with a very good attention to detail
  • Self motivated with analytical and assessment skills
  • Adaptable and work well under deadlines.
  • Work experience in lab environment and/or courses in quality assurance an asset

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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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