Element has an opportunity for a Associate Project Manager.  This role is a key function in servicing our clients by ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to their demands, delivering efficient and excellent performance.  The Associate Project Manager has daily responsibility to technically supervise testing operations and give clear technical guidance as necessary across a wide range of the laboratory's testing capabilities. This role will manage testing in our Flammability and Mechanical labs in support of Aerospace and Defense customers.

Salary: $65,000.00 - $85,000.00 DOE 

• Responsibility for technical review of quotations
• Review the full work scope to ensure that it can be executed in a safe way and at a high quality standard and if necessary ensuring a risk assessment is available
• Review technical standards and requirements, and where appropriate write job specific test procedures, liaise with clients on all matters technical and status related
• Provide technical leadership to the project team with support from senior colleagues and Technical Specialists
• Arrange and supervise on-site witnessing by clients and representatives during testing
• Perform review and audit activities on jobs including technical contract review, technical procedure review / audit, job start readiness review and job close review
• Provide regular progress reports and financial forecasts for the projects managed
• Report and present results, closing projects and invoicing, create and archive job packs for each project
• Maintaining, developing, and improving processes within the laboratory at all levels and in all areas including completing annual OKR’s

• Analytical problem solving skills
• Highly organised
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and strong written communication
• Adaptable and flexible in approach
• Ability to support the training of others to a high technical standard
• Familiarity with national and international testing standards
• Knowledge of flammability test methods and standards including FAR 25.853 desired but not required
• Familiarity with a wide range of supporting software tools, highly IT literate
• Familiar with a wide range of physical test methods, including tensile, flexural, compression, torsion modes

• Ability to work on well-defined issues, standard and/or routine tests, with limited supervision in accordance with approved procedures, methods, customer specifications and standards
• Adapt at managing job priority and work time in accordance with targets/goals set by supervisor
• Under the close guidance of advanced Engineers in the laboratory, work on well delineated technical issues including standard and routine analysis
• Define work experience that has impact on the day to day technical decisions made on timely delivery of laboratory testing services and customer support
• Strong technical knowledge
• Able to demonstrate the ability to apply an array of testing techniques in a rational and practical style to help examine issues and build solutions

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.

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.