Test Stand Operator (FBO)

Join the world's largest HVAC company, named by Forbes as one of America's Best-In-State Employers 2025!

Starting Wage: $34.93

Shift: Weekend - 6:00am-6:30pm Friday-Sunday

Location: Daikin Applied - Faribault South

What’s in it for you:

• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
• Pension Plan funded by Daikin
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Referral Bonus Program
• Growth Opportunities
• Climate Controlled Facility

Your Responsibilities:

• Connect and operate test stand unit and adjusts controls as necessary to meet specifications

• Ability to locate and identify the safe testing amperage and voltage

• Read schematics and blueprints to ensure proper assembly

• Ability to use computer test software effectively

• Complete required test documentation in a timely manner

• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve unit performance abnormalities within electrical and refrigeration systems

• Communicate the status of the test process to team members and supervisors

• Effective use of specialized and basic tools necessary to complete test process

• Train new members on the various machines, procedures, safe work practices and any pertinent items regarding safety, quality and production

• Responsible for maintaining the 5s program to ensure a clean work area

• Follow and understand HOMESafe, Personal Choice and company safety manual requirements.

• Identify and rework defective work pieces to comply with quality standards

• Read and interpret blue prints, sketches or product specifications to determine sequence and methods of fabricating, assembling and installing sheet metal products, including machine adjustments and material requirements per engineering requirements

• Ability to use hand tools

• Operate PIT (Powered Industrial Trucks)

• All other duties as assigned

Your Qualifications:

• The ability to lift, push, and/or pull materials, stand for majority of the shift, and work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while maintaining proper PPE.
• The ability to use hand tools for extended periods of time.

• The ability to read, write and communicate effectively in English.

• High School Education/GED OR Minimum 2 years of related experience in a manufacturing/production environment.

·       2-year trade school  (EPA) certificate in A/C Refrigeration or equivalent education approved by company

Your Benefits: 

Daikin Applied offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Multiple Medical insurance plan options + Dental and Vision insurance
• Employer contributed pension of $2.50 per hour worked into a pension plan managed by the Local 480
• Company provided life insurance + optional employee paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage and voluntary accident coverage
• Short term disability and optional employee paid voluntary long-term disability
• 80 hours paid time off for new employees, prorated based on start date
• 88 hours company paid holidays
• 48 hours of paid sick and safe time, prorated based on start date
• Tuition Reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of pre-employment requirements, including verification of employment history, education, background screening, and drug testing where permitted by law. Safety-sensitive positions may require cannabis (marijuana) testing. All testing and employment decisions will comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws.