Maintenance Technician Jobs in Minnesota
Maintenance Technician jobs in Minnesota are consistently active, with strong demand from manufacturing plants, commercial real estate, and healthcare facilities, and openings at every level from entry-level building technician to senior facilities specialist. The heaviest hiring concentrates in the Twin Cities metro, Duluth, and Rochester, where employers like Xcel Energy, Mayo Clinic, and 3M maintain large facilities operations. HVAC systems, industrial equipment maintenance, and building automation are the most in-demand specialties across the state. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Requisition ID: 67052
Position Type: FT Permanent
Workplace Arrangement:
About Kerry
Where you'll work:
Our Rochester, MN location is part of Kerry’s Applied Health and Nutrition Division, specializing in fermented ingredients for the bioscience industry. The site supports clean-label, natural products with a strong focus on freshness, quality, food safety, and plant reliability.
Shift: 12-hour rotating schedule; postings should reflect Red Days and Blue Days.
What you'll do:
The Maintenance Technician will troubleshoot, repair, rebuild, maintain, and improve food processing, fermentation, drying, liquid handling, material handling, and packaging equipment to maximize uptime, production efficiency, equipment reliability, and food safety compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and troubleshoot hygienic and aseptic processing systems, including SPX Flow/APV, GEA, Sharpe, and Südmo valves.
- Repair and rebuild sanitary valves, valve actuators, seats, seals, diaphragms, aseptic valve manifolds, and related wear components.
- Support CIP and SIP operations to ensure product quality, sanitation, and process reliability.
- Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain vacuum, centrifugal, positive displacement, rotary lobe, and process transfer pumps, including seals, bearings, shafts, impellers, alignment, vibration monitoring, and performance testing.
- Maintain rotary valves, rotary feeders, airlocks, drive systems, gearboxes, conveying equipment, and material handling systems.
- Perform maintenance on priority site equipment, including fermenters, evaporators, spray dryers, liquefiers, mixers, blending systems, liquid storage silos, heat exchangers, ingredient handling systems, and thermal/process systems.
- Troubleshoot and repair liquid and dry product packaging systems, filling equipment, bagging equipment, conveyors, labeling equipment, case packers, and palletizers.
- Respond quickly to equipment breakdowns, support production line startups and changeovers, and diagnose process interruptions while minimizing downtime.
- Troubleshoot motors, motor controls, VFDs, sensors, instrumentation, PLC-controlled equipment, and automated manufacturing systems.
- Read and interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, electrical schematics, equipment manuals, and technical drawings.
- Complete preventive and predictive maintenance, document work in the CMMS, participate in root cause analysis, and recommend improvements to increase safety, reliability, and efficiency.
- Follow all GMP, HACCP, SQF, OSHA, LOTO, food safety, sanitary design, and company safety requirements.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Required Qualifications
- HS Diploma/GED; technical training or equivalent experience preferred.
- 3+ years industrial maintenance in food, beverage, dairy, pharma, CPG, or manufacturing.
- Experience with sanitary process equipment, pumps, valves, packaging, fermentation/drying systems.
- Strong mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and automation troubleshooting skills.
- Able to work independently, prioritize tasks, and support production environments.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills.
- Flexible for shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays.
Preferred Experience
- Dairy, food processing, ingredient manufacturing, fermentation, aseptic processing, or spray drying.
- PLC (Allen-Bradley) and VFD troubleshooting.
- Class B boiler license, TIG welding/fabrication.
- Knowledge of GMP, HACCP, SQF, OSHA, LOTO, and food safety.
Physical Requirements
- Lift up to 50 lbs.
- Stand, walk, bend, climb, and perform physical work throughout shifts.
- Work around heat, steam, chemicals, noise, machinery, and at heights.
- Wear required PPE, including respirators.
Compensation Data
The pay rate for this position is $33.00 - 39.00 per hour. Kerry offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, Life, disability, and accident insurance. This job posting is anticipated to expire on December 1, 2026.
We may use artificial intelligence tools to support the review and assessment of applications and assist with scheduling interviews. We do not use AI to make decisions during the interview process. All candidate assessments and hiring decisions are made by our recruitment and leadership teams.
Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Additional information can be found at: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (dol.gov).
Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.
Recruiter:
Posting Type: DNI
Nearest Major Market: Rochester MN
Requisition ID: 67052
Position Type: FT Permanent
Workplace Arrangement:
About Kerry
Where you'll work:
Our Rochester, MN location is part of Kerry’s Applied Health and Nutrition Division, specializing in fermented ingredients for the bioscience industry. The site supports clean-label, natural products with a strong focus on freshness, quality, food safety, and plant reliability.
Shift: 12-hour rotating schedule; postings should reflect Red Days and Blue Days.
What you'll do:
The Maintenance Technician will troubleshoot, repair, rebuild, maintain, and improve food processing, fermentation, drying, liquid handling, material handling, and packaging equipment to maximize uptime, production efficiency, equipment reliability, and food safety compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and troubleshoot hygienic and aseptic processing systems, including SPX Flow/APV, GEA, Sharpe, and Südmo valves.
- Repair and rebuild sanitary valves, valve actuators, seats, seals, diaphragms, aseptic valve manifolds, and related wear components.
- Support CIP and SIP operations to ensure product quality, sanitation, and process reliability.
- Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain vacuum, centrifugal, positive displacement, rotary lobe, and process transfer pumps, including seals, bearings, shafts, impellers, alignment, vibration monitoring, and performance testing.
- Maintain rotary valves, rotary feeders, airlocks, drive systems, gearboxes, conveying equipment, and material handling systems.
- Perform maintenance on priority site equipment, including fermenters, evaporators, spray dryers, liquefiers, mixers, blending systems, liquid storage silos, heat exchangers, ingredient handling systems, and thermal/process systems.
- Troubleshoot and repair liquid and dry product packaging systems, filling equipment, bagging equipment, conveyors, labeling equipment, case packers, and palletizers.
- Respond quickly to equipment breakdowns, support production line startups and changeovers, and diagnose process interruptions while minimizing downtime.
- Troubleshoot motors, motor controls, VFDs, sensors, instrumentation, PLC-controlled equipment, and automated manufacturing systems.
- Read and interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, electrical schematics, equipment manuals, and technical drawings.
- Complete preventive and predictive maintenance, document work in the CMMS, participate in root cause analysis, and recommend improvements to increase safety, reliability, and efficiency.
- Follow all GMP, HACCP, SQF, OSHA, LOTO, food safety, sanitary design, and company safety requirements.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Required Qualifications
- HS Diploma/GED; technical training or equivalent experience preferred.
- 3+ years industrial maintenance in food, beverage, dairy, pharma, CPG, or manufacturing.
- Experience with sanitary process equipment, pumps, valves, packaging, fermentation/drying systems.
- Strong mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and automation troubleshooting skills.
- Able to work independently, prioritize tasks, and support production environments.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills.
- Flexible for shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays.
Preferred Experience
- Dairy, food processing, ingredient manufacturing, fermentation, aseptic processing, or spray drying.
- PLC (Allen-Bradley) and VFD troubleshooting.
- Class B boiler license, TIG welding/fabrication.
- Knowledge of GMP, HACCP, SQF, OSHA, LOTO, and food safety.
Physical Requirements
- Lift up to 50 lbs.
- Stand, walk, bend, climb, and perform physical work throughout shifts.
- Work around heat, steam, chemicals, noise, machinery, and at heights.
- Wear required PPE, including respirators.
Compensation Data
The pay rate for this position is $33.00 - 39.00 per hour. Kerry offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, Life, disability, and accident insurance. This job posting is anticipated to expire on December 1, 2026.
We may use artificial intelligence tools to support the review and assessment of applications and assist with scheduling interviews. We do not use AI to make decisions during the interview process. All candidate assessments and hiring decisions are made by our recruitment and leadership teams.
Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Additional information can be found at: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (dol.gov).
Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.
Recruiter:
Posting Type: DNI
Nearest Major Market: Rochester MN
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The qualifications that appear most often in maintenance technician jobs across Minnesota.
- High school diploma or GED with vocational or trade school coursework preferred
- EPA 608 certification required for roles involving refrigerants and HVAC systems
- Experience with preventive maintenance programs and CMMS software platforms
- Ability to read technical schematics, blueprints, and equipment manuals
- Competency in electrical, plumbing, and mechanical systems troubleshooting
- Valid Minnesota driver's license for facilities or multi-site maintenance roles
Maintenance Technician Jobs in Minnesota: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a maintenance technician in Minnesota?
Most maintenance technician positions in Minnesota require a high school diploma or GED, with employers strongly preferring graduates of vocational or technical programs in HVAC, electrical systems, or industrial maintenance. Minnesota State colleges and technical institutions like Dunwoody College of Technology and Hennepin Technical College offer direct-entry programs. For roles involving refrigerants, an EPA 608 certification is required. Electrical work above a threshold requires licensure through the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry.
Which companies hire maintenance technicians in Minnesota?
Companies currently hiring maintenance technicians in Minnesota include Tires Plus, Camping World, and Bigos Management, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Minnesota's concentration of large manufacturers, integrated health systems, and energy utilities means stable, long-term openings across the state.
Which Minnesota cities have the most maintenance technician jobs?
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Mankato have the most maintenance technician openings in Minnesota. The Twin Cities metro drives the largest share of listings due to its density of commercial properties, manufacturing facilities, and major healthcare campuses, while Rochester's openings are anchored by Mayo Clinic's extensive facilities operations and Duluth's activity reflects its industrial and port infrastructure.
Are there remote maintenance technician jobs in Minnesota?
Yes, but they're rare. Maintenance technician work is fundamentally hands-on, requiring physical presence to inspect, repair, and operate equipment. About 0% of maintenance technician openings tied to Minnesota are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those positions typically involve remote monitoring, facilities coordination, or technical support roles rather than direct equipment servicing.
How can I get hired as a maintenance technician in Minnesota with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a maintenance helper or facilities assistant role, which large Minnesota employers like Xcel Energy, hospital systems, and property management companies regularly post for candidates without prior experience. Completing a certificate program at Hennepin Technical College or Saint Paul College gives candidates a concrete credential. Lateral moves from custodial, manufacturing, or warehouse roles are common and accepted. An EPA 608 certification, even self-studied, gives entry-level applicants a clear advantage when applying.
Where can I find and apply to maintenance technician jobs in Minnesota?
You can find and apply to maintenance technician jobs in Minnesota on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers hiring across the state. Find the roles that fit your experience and specialization and apply directly to those positions.
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