Maintenance Engineer (R&D Engineering Test Lab)

Location: On-site 5 days per week in Anoka, Minnesota, United States. Core hours are 9:30 am–3:30 pm.

Compensation range: $76,000–$141,100 per year, with potential eligibility for additional annual incentives.

Company

Global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions for sensitive equipment, buildings, and critical industrial processes.

What you will do

• Own maintenance, reliability, and long-term readiness for R&D test lab equipment, including thermal, pressure, mechanical, and electromechanical systems.
• Develop and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance programs to reduce downtime and improve equipment availability.
• Plan and coordinate maintenance, repairs, upgrades, installations, commissioning projects, and new test facility launches.
• Diagnose complex issues involving industrial refrigeration, heating and cooling systems, compressors, controls, sensors, electrical power, and mechanical components.
• Lead calibration planning, execution, and documentation with traceability to NIST standards for ISO 17025 and UL certification requirements.
• Support R&D engineers with test execution, test cell layouts, equipment design, lab infrastructure, controls, LabVIEW-based software, and data acquisition systems.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree, two-year technical degree, or equivalent technical training in engineering, engineering technology, HVAC/R, or a related field.
• Ideally 3–5 years of hands-on experience with sophisticated electromechanical systems in an R&D lab, test environment, industrial facility, or manufacturing setting.
• Experience planning and implementing planned and condition-based maintenance in uptime-critical environments.
• Background with industrial refrigeration or thermal systems, including integrated heating, cooling, and compressor-based systems.
• Basic knowledge of electrical controls, PLCs, and sensors, plus the ability to interpret manuals, schematics, engineering drawings, and equipment documentation.
• Ability to lift, push, or pull up to 50 pounds and stand or sit for extended periods; EPA 608 certification is required or must be obtained within three months of starting.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing, integrating, or supporting controls software and LabVIEW-based test environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, disability coverage, critical illness and accident insurance, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement and employee stock purchase plans include a company match.
• Additional benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver and parental leave, backup care, paid time off, volunteer time, well-being programs, and legal and identity theft protection.
• Values include innovation, integrity, customer focus, respect, teamwork, optimism, and accountability.