CNC and Field Service Technician Jobs in Minnesota
Minnesota Industrial MachineX is hiring Minnesota-based field techs to repair CNC machines, press brakes, hydraulics, PLCs and plant equipment at manufacturers across the state. Mechanical engineers back our techs up, and because a hard-down machine usually gets a same-day response from us, the plant you’re driving to is counting on you. Want to talk about it?
What Field Service Technician Work Looks Like Here
Minnesota is the territory, so one day you’re at a fab shop in the metro and the next you’re at a plant a couple hours out. It’s a different machine most days, too. Monday might be a lathe turret that won’t index, Tuesday a press brake throwing a Y1/Y2 sync fault, and Wednesday a packaging line with a dead I/O module. The full range is on our industrial machine repair page.
Not every day is a breakdown call. Our techs also run monthly maintenance programs, visiting the same plants on a set schedule to work the PM checklist and the plant’s repair list. That gives you steady scheduled work across different plants, and because you get to know those machines visit after visit, the breakdown calls from those plants go faster.
When you’re standing at a machine nobody has seen in ten years, you can pick up the phone and work it through with a mechanical engineer, so you aren’t expected to know everything alone. You’ll usually know what you’re walking into as well. Customers often talk to us by phone or video before anyone drives, through our remote troubleshooting, which means you tend to arrive with the alarm, the control model and photos already in hand.
Open Roles
CNC and Industrial Field Service Technician
Diagnose and repair CNC lathes, machining centers and routers, plus the general industrial equipment around them. Expect servo and encoder faults, spindle problems, ATC and turret issues, drawbar and tool clamp failures, and alignment work like leveling, spindle tramming and backlash compensation. This role sits at the center of our CNC machine repair work.
Controls and PLC Technician
Work on Fanuc, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Heidenhain and Fagor CNC controls, and Siemens, Modicon and AutomationDirect PLCs. The work covers ladder logic, I/O, drives, lost parameters, E-stop and interlock circuits and light curtains. You’d handle CNC control and PLC repair calls and help on control retrofits for machines with unsupported controls.
Hydraulic and Fabrication Equipment Technician
This role works on press brakes, shears, ironworkers, punch presses and hydraulic presses, which means proportional valves, relief and directional valves, pumps, cylinder seals and rebuilds, backgauges and ram parallel. Most of it runs through press brake repair and hydraulic machine repair.
Skills We Look For
- You can read electrical schematics and hydraulic prints.
- You troubleshoot with a meter and a plan instead of swapping parts until something works.
- Mechanical basics are second nature: bearings, ballscrews, gibs and ways, belts, alignment.
- You’re strong in at least one of CNC controls, PLC ladder logic or hydraulics, and willing to learn the others.
- You can explain what you found to a plant manager and an operator in plain words.
- You follow lockout/tagout and each plant’s safety rules without being told twice.
- You have a valid driver’s license and don’t mind statewide travel.
If you’re strong in one area and curious about the rest, that’s worth a call. Plant maintenance techs who have kept CNC and hydraulic equipment running make good field techs.
Pay and Benefits
Pay: [PAY RANGE] Benefits: [BENEFITS]
We’ll go through the details when we talk.
How to Apply for Machine Repair Technician Jobs
Call (651) 386-6553 and ask about tech jobs, or email your résumé to [APPLY EMAIL]. Tell us which machines and controls you’ve worked on and where in Minnesota you live. We cover the whole Minnesota service area, so location matters when we match you to work. More about the company is on our About page.
FAQ
Are you hiring CNC service technicians in Minnesota?
Yes. We’re adding Minnesota-based field techs for CNC work, controls and PLC work, and hydraulic and fabrication equipment work.
What does a CNC field service technician do?
A field service tech travels to customer plants and diagnoses and repairs machines on site. Here that means CNC lathes and mills, press brakes, hydraulics, PLCs, robots and plant equipment all over Minnesota.
Do I need experience on every kind of machine?
No. Most techs are strong in one area, like CNC, controls or hydraulics. We look for solid troubleshooting skills and a willingness to learn the rest, with our engineers backing you up.
Can an industrial maintenance technician apply?
Yes. Plant maintenance techs who have kept CNC machines, presses and hydraulic equipment running make strong field techs. The difference is a different plant and a different machine most days.
How much travel is involved?
You’ll travel to plants across Minnesota. Some days are in the Twin Cities metro and some are farther out. Along with repair calls, our techs work monthly maintenance programs, so part of the week is steady scheduled work at plants you get to know. Call and we’ll talk through what a typical week looks like.
What does the job pay?
Pay is [PAY RANGE], and benefits include [BENEFITS].
How do I apply?
Call (651) 386-6553 or email your résumé to [APPLY EMAIL].