Maintenance Technician - Electrical Controls - Swing Shift

Birdfood Fargo, Fargo, ND, US

3 days ago Requisition

Red River Commodities is a leading processor of sunflower seeds and specialty grains, specializing in high-quality, nutritious food products. We pride ourselves on our sustainable practices, innovation, and commitment to delivering superior products to our customers. Our team shares core values focused on quality, innovation, responsibility, and community. We work hard, play harder, embrace authenticity, and always support one another to achieve our goals.

Location: 340 40th St N, Fargo, ND 58102

Shift: 4:00pm-2:30am (Monday-Thursday)

The Maintenance Technician
- Automation & Electrical Controls supports the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of production and facility equipment through preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and continuous improvement. In addition to mechanical, pneumatic, and general facility maintenance, this role provides advanced support for industrial electrical systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human-machine interfaces (HMIs), variable-frequency drives (VFDs), instrumentation, sensors, motor controls, and automated production equipment.

This position works closely with Production, Quality, Engineering, equipment vendors, and plant leadership to reduce downtime, improve equipment reliability, and maintain safe, controlled operation of bagging lines, grain-processing equipment, conveyors, and supporting systems. The role is expected to troubleshoot controls issues methodically, protect approved control‑system configurations, and elevate programming or design changes that exceed authorized access or technical scope.

• Perform scheduled inspections, lubrication, adjustment, testing, and preventive maintenance on bagging lines, grain-processing equipment, conveyors, motors, gearboxes, pneumatic systems, dust‑collection equipment, and facility systems.
• Complete electrical and controls preventive maintenance, including inspection of panels, terminations, motor starters, disconnects, VFDs, sensors, encoders, safety devices, and control enclosures.
• Use available condition information, fault histories, and operator observations to identify developing equipment issues before failure.
• Document completed work, findings, measurements, corrective actions, and follow‑up needs in maintenance logs or the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

• Troubleshoot PLC‑controlled equipment using electrical schematics, I/O status, alarm histories, ladder‑logic monitoring, HMI diagnostics, and safe test procedures.
• Diagnose faults involving PLC inputs and outputs, relays, power supplies, communication devices, proximity and photoelectric sensors, limit switches, load cells, encoders, actuators, and solenoid valves.
• Troubleshoot HMI alarms, communication failures, sequence interruptions, interlocks, permissives, timers, counters, and process‑control issues.
• Diagnose and reset VFD and soft‑starter faults; verify operating parameters, control signals, motor condition, and associated wiring before returning equipment to service.
• Maintain backups and controlled copies of approved PLC, HMI, VFD, and other automation configurations in accordance with plant change‑control procedures.
• Make minor, authorized PLC or HMI adjustments when trained and approved; coordinate higher‑risk programming, architecture, network, or security‑control changes with qualified engineering resources or approved integrators.

• Troubleshoot and repair industrial electrical systems, including motors, motor‑control circuits, starters, contractors,…