Industrial Maintenance Technician

FWS Group; North Dakota; On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Health Insurance

Dental & Vision

Professional Training

Job summary

KPIC Maintenance Services Inc. is seeking an Industrial Maintenance Technician to support our North Dakota locations (Minot, Bismarck, Grand Forks or Fargo).

The role focuses on safe mechanical maintenance, inspections, and installation tasks across grain handling, feed mill, and food processing facilities. You will work with a collaborative team, mentoring junior staff, and handling daily paperwork to KPIC standards while ensuring high-quality, cost-effective service.

Qualifications

• Honesty and integrity in all business interactions.
• Motivated, positive attitude with ability to multitask
• Strong mechanical aptitude with troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of industrial drives, shafts, bearings, and lubrication
• Ability to install, examine, diagnose, and adjust various industrial equipment
• Welding principles; CWB certification asset
• Work in cold/hot environments with grain dust
• Industrial maintenance experience
• Agricultural industry experience asset
• Enrolled in Apprenticeship program; Journeyman asset
• Safety training: First Aid, fall arrest, confined space, WHMIS, CSTS assets

Responsibilities

• Perform mechanical maintenance, inspections, and installations per specs.
• Operate forklifts and access equipment safely.
• Read equipment drawings and layout work to drawings.
• Weld and cut using appropriate equipment.
• Supervise laborers and train junior workers.
• Complete daily paperwork to KPIC standards.
• Maintain tools and tool trailer.
• Follow safety policies and maintain a clean work area.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Team player

Safety-conscious

Welding knowledge

Fabrication/assembly

Forklift operation

Rigging and hoisting

Education

Apprenticeship program enrollment

Journeyman status asset

CWB certification asset

Tools

Welding equipment usage

Industrial drives knowledge

Read drawings/layouts

Job description

KPIC Maintenance Services Inc. (a member of the FWS Group of Companies) specializing in industrial maintenance services, providing preventative and reactive solutions along with small project retrofits and expansions to our client's facilities primarily in grain handling, feed mill and food processing.

To support our continued growth, we are recruiting for a Industrial Maintenance Technician, for our North Dakota (Minot, Bismarck, Grand Forks or Fargo) area locations to join our collaborative and team focused organization.

We have a lot to offer you - 401K, Health Insurance, Dental and Vision Insurance, Professional Training, just to name a few. Ask us to hear more.

As our Industrial Millwright, you will ensure all assigned mechanical-related tasks are completed in a timely and cost-effective manner with a high level of quality, using safe work practices acceptable to the customers' satisfaction.

Position Overview:

• Utilizes safe work practices and promote safety policies to others. Must maintain a clean and safe work area.
• Proficient in standards, codes, best practices, safe work policies, and practices.
• Responsible for safe and conscientious use of equipment, including forklift, skid steer loader, scissor lifts, and power tools, along with proficiency in safe methods of hoisting and rigging at all times.
• Mechanical equipment inspections, troubleshooting, repairing, and preventative maintenance, along with installations, dismantling, and assembling as per manufacturer specifications and recommended standards.
• Proficient in material take-offs, interpreting equipment drawings, including providing accurate layout of the work and building to drawings and specifications, along with O+M Manuals to ensure correct maintenance and service has been provided.
• Accurately and effectively uses various types of welding and cutting equipment.
• Supervises laborer's and resources as required for a specific task.
• Mentors and trains junior workers to develop trade-related skills.
• Ability to complete required daily paperwork with legible penmanship and to KPIC standard.
• Responsible for all company tools, ensuring they are accounted for at the end of each day. Maintaining a clean tool trailer each and every day.

Qualifications Needed:

• Demonstrates honesty and integrity in all business interactions and strives to meet customer needs in a creative and safe manner.
• Highly motivated, positive attitude, pleasant demeanor with an ability to handle multiple time-sensitive tasks while working within a team environment and cross-functional departments, as well as independently.
• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude with excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge and ability to assemble and commission mechanical systems in addition to an understanding of multi-hp industrial drives, shafts, bearings, and lubrication.
• Ability to install, examine, diagnose, and adjust various types of industrial and mechanical equipment.
• Understanding of welding principles, including rod selection and pre/post heat theory along with CWB certification (flat minimum and or/ all position preferred-SMAW process) considered an asset.
• Ability to work in cold & hot weather/environments and green/brown fields sites subject to grain dust.
• Appropriate level of experience in an industrial maintenance/service environment.
• Agricultural Industry experience considered an asset.
• Enrolled in Apprenticeship program.
• Journeyman status is an asset.
• Required Safety tickets/training, minimally including a current First Aid Certificate, fall arrest, confined space, WHMIS, CSTS will be considered an asset and preference will be shown towards candidate holding valid & current training.
• Proof of training maybe requested.
• Holds no previous safety violation within the FWS Group of Companies.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.

Why Work for FWS?

Safety Culture

Competitive Wages

Inclusion and Diversity

Cross-Training

Company Paid Benefits

Retirement Savings Program

Project To Scheduling

Our goal is to keep everyone working

Corporate Clothing Allowances