Department Supervisor (NDT)

Element has an opportunity for an Department Supervisor -NDT position. In this role you will be a member of the operational leadership team reporting to the Operations Manager or General Manager and perform a variety of leadership responsibilities within the department to ensure timely and accurate test results are delivered.

Element is a world renown Aerospace Testing Company with clients such as Boeing, SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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 for people. This is what sets us (and you, if you join us…) apart from the crowd.

Salary: $70K-$85K/yr

• Setting and releasing initial schedule for production to floor
• Responsible for the coordination of schedules and plans with other company departments to provide for efficient workflow
• Monitoring product from release to floor to delivery to customer - Ownership of Physical and Digital Production Flow
• Transmit production performance statistics/concerns to Department Manager and make recommendations for improvement
• Place critical Purchase Orders for materials, services, and consumables, while tracking and ensure incoming receipt
• Manage day-to-day operations of a materials testing department
• Maintain high levels of accuracy in your daily department operations
• Review testing services and promote additional capacity and process improvement
• Translate technical requirements of the client into providing pricing, timing and technical knowledge for quoting and commercial efforts
• Engaging with customers to review technical, schedule, and operational needs
• Assists in development and transmissions of operating plan and strategic plan
• Communicate with customers based on delivery schedule and shifting priorities
• Continuously communicating with various internal and external stakeholders regarding needs and updates

Is this job for me?

This is a fast-paced environment, and we need someone who is proactive, self-motivated and a team player. The person for this role will be a specialist in their field, respected by all who they work with, keen to learn and enthusiastic in the face of challenge. You will:

• Ability of leading cross functional teams
• Ability to read and interpret test specifications, drawings, test plans and/or blueprints
• Ability to create lead and work in a team atmosphere
• Ability to drive and influence positive change
• Aerospace experience a plus
• Ability to remain calm when faced with mounting pressure related to deadlines and multiple priorities
• Self-directed and detail oriented
• knowledge of Non-Destructive Testing is a plus
• Willingness to work overtime when asked based on schedule and customer needs

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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.

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) 

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