Two seats open in Princeton, MN · Lab Assistant ($20-24/hr to start) · Electronics Repair Technician ($28-40/hr DOE)
I'm Michael. I run Northland ECM. This started as just me at the bench, and the work outgrew one set of hands, so the team is growing. A rising tide lifts all ships: this is a growing company, and the people who help lift it through good work and new ideas will be honored as it grows. I'm not looking for a warm body. I'm building a crew.
No corporate nonsense. Real money for real skill, the freedom to do the job right, and a ground-floor seat in something you'll help build.
$28-40/hr DOE, more for the right person
Diagnose diesel ECMs to the component: read the schematic, trace the signal with a scope, find the fault, fix it with fine-pitch rework, prove it on the bench.
You're at home here if:
$20-24/hr to start · part-time to start, full-time if you prove bench-tech skills
Keep the lab and shop running while you learn a real trade. You'd start hands-on: cleaning and prepping ECMs, media blasting, photographing boards for our documentation library, teardown prep, and learning soldering at the bench as fast as you can pick it up.
You're at home here if:
Fine-pitch SMD and through-hole rework on diesel ECM boards. Diagnose to the component, fix it, prove it works.
Run ECMs on the test bench, capture results, follow and improve the diagnostic procedures.
Help build the testers and diagnostic tools we use and sell: fixtures, test rigs, bench procedures. Techs grow into it. It's a growing shop, so everyone wears a few hats.
This isn't ticket-queue repair. It's board-level work plus the deep end: embedded diesel ECM internals, reverse engineering, and building diagnostic tools from scratch. Diesel ECMs are boards almost nobody else in the country works on at this level. If you take things apart to understand them and get a kick out of hard technical problems, the runway here is long, whichever seat you take.
Formal electronics training - an AAS or BS in electronics engineering technology, or the military/avionics/biomed equivalent - is strongly preferred for the tech seat. That said, the bench is the real interview: if you're self-taught and can genuinely diagnose from a schematic, show me the work.
Tech seat: $28-40/hr to start, depending on experience - and I will go higher than that for the right person. Lab assistant seat: $20-24/hr to start, part time to start - prove bench-tech skills and it goes full time at tech pay. Either way, pay grows as you and the shop grow.
We're a growing company, and the benefits package is growing with it. What I can offer right now is solid pay for real skill, autonomy, and a real stake in where this goes.
Everyone's welcome at this bench. Northland ECM is an equal opportunity employer. Race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status - none of it changes what a clean solder joint looks like. If you can do the work, you belong here.
Short and simple. I read every one personally.