Test Lab Technician
About The Position
Unybrands designs and manufactures products that customers know, trust and love. Our range spans nail polish, showerheads, supplements, water filtration, pet products and treats, plus more. Before any of those products reach a customer, someone has to test them properly: run the procedure, capture the data and tell the truth about what the results show. This role involves working alongside Product Engineering, NPD and Sourcing to provide an honest, internally generated read on how products actually perform, rather than relying solely on supplier reports. The data produced is crucial for engineering decisions regarding product readiness, redesigns, or problem identification. This role offers ownership of a real test program on a real consumer product, providing hands-on experience in electrical test equipment, structured documentation, and root cause analysis.
Requirements
- Associate degree in a technical field or 2+ years of equivalent hands-on experience
- Comfortable with hand tools and precision instruments
- A working grasp of AC and DC electricity and the test equipment that goes with it
- Comfortable working independently and moving fast on time-sensitive tasks
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Sharp with measurement units, measurement systems and unit conversion
- Solid with MS Office, especially Word and Excel
Nice To Haves
- Force gauges, calipers and micrometers are a plus
- Any exposure to agency testing such as UL, IEC, ASTM or NSF
- Experience with electro-mechanical or pneumatic components
- Bonus points for time on automated test equipment like Instron, CMM, particle size analyzers or viscometers
Responsibilities
- Run standard test procedures and keep documentation precise and complete
- Read manufacturing drawings, diagrams and specifications to set up inspections and tests correctly
- Set up test equipment correctly for each procedure
- Run manual and automated tests, capture clean data and report progress
- Use electrical test equipment, power analyzers, multimeters, electrical strength testers, current leakage testers and power supplies, to characterize how products actually perform
- Turn raw results into a clear written summary in Excel that someone else can act on without re-running your work
- Track every sample and every result so nothing gets lost or mixed up
- Raise issues quickly and clearly, timing matters more than most people expect
- Partner with Test Engineering on fixture builds and contribute your own design thinking
- Take an active role in the lab's safety culture, every day, every test
- Be ready to move: lift up to 50 lbs and stay on your feet for extended stretches
- Investigate a live field issue
- Tear down and flow-test current production units to identify the actual failure mode
- Pull samples from multiple production lots and real customer returns
- Document every run with photos, measurements and conditions
- Benchmark side-by-side against the prior design and at least one competitor product
- Once a fix is proposed, re-run the series and confirm it actually works before it goes back into production
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
