Technical Officer

Element Materials Technology

  • Warrington, Cheshire
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 24 days ago
Overview🔥 Ignite Your Career as a Fire Resistance Technical Officer in Warrington! 🔥Are you ready to be the guardian of safety, protecting against the flames? We're seeking a Fire Resistance Technical Officer to join our dedicated team in Warrington!If you're passionate about fire safety, possess a keen eye for detail, and thrive in ensuring compliance with fire resistance standards, then we want YOU to join us.Join our mission to safeguard lives, property and Make Tomorrow Safer Than Today!Apply now and become a pivotal part of our fire-resistant team in Warrington!Responsibilities
  • Liaising with clients to ensure that their requirements are fully met, including quoting and contracting projects and ensuring clients provide all the necessary information regarding their products as well as the test specimens themselves
  • Conducting tests in accordance with the requirements of the appropriate test standard and approved procedures
  • Preparation of test reports complying fully with the requirements of the test standard and quality manual
  • Working with the Technician teams to ensure that test preparations and testing are completed to specification and on time
  • Involvement in specific projects to cost, organise and complete
Skills / Qualifications
  • Ideally a higher education qualification, in a scientific or engineering field
  • An interest in understanding how things are put together / work
  • Previous experience or knowledge of working to testing standards would be beneficial but not essential
  • A working understanding of construction materials and their uses, some experience in a construction-
  • related field would be beneficial but not essential
  • IT skills including Word and Excel – some knowledge of AutoCAD would be beneficial but not essential
  • Good decision maker with practical problem-solving skills
  • A confident individual with a calm disposition, able to establish a rapport with clients and staff
  • Good written and verbal communication skills, with excellent attention to detail
  • Organised and methodical
  • Willingness to learn quickly
  • Enjoys team working but can operate alone
To apply please email Leigh.McComish@element.com#LI-LM1Company OverviewElement 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 StatementAt 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.The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)“If you need an accommodation filling out an application, or applying to a job, please email ”

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