Test Lab Technician

THE ROLE

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. That is this role.

You will work alongside Product Engineering, NPD and Sourcing to give the company an honest, internally generated read on how our products actually perform, rather than relying only on what a supplier reports back. It is detailed work and it matters: the data you produce is what engineering uses to decide whether a product is ready, needs a redesign or has a problem worth chasing down.

WHY IT IS WORTH YOUR TIME

Three months here gives you something most internships and early roles do not: ownership of a real test program on a real consumer product, with your name on the data. You will leave with hands-on experience across electrical test equipment, structured documentation and root cause thinking, the kind of applied technical fluency that translates directly to engineering, quality and product roles afterward, whether your next step is graduate study or your first full-time offer. If you are precise, curious and like understanding how things actually work, this is a genuinely good place to build that muscle.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• 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 as you go
• 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

YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT

Investigate a live field issue

One of our flagship product lines has a known field issue, and your first real assignment is to help characterize it properly rather than guess at it.

• Tear down and flow-test current production units to identify the actual failure mode
• Pull samples from multiple production lots and real customer returns, fresh-off-the-line units alone will not tell the full story
• Document every run with photos, measurements and conditions so engineering can see the pattern, not just one data point
• 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

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Associate degree in a technical field or 2+ years of equivalent hands-on experience
• Comfortable with hand tools and precision instruments; 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
• 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, you will need to make your findings land
• Sharp with measurement units, measurement systems and unit conversion
• Solid with MS Office, especially Word and Excel
• Bonus points for time on automated test equipment like Instron, CMM, particle size analyzers or viscometers