IBEW Local 1426 in Grand Forks has 60 open positions on November 1, 2026, at a $44.80 scale. Parsons wants 17 journeyman wiremen at the Polaris Forge data center in Harwood on 6-10s. The hall job-calls page does not print Book 1 or Book 2. The live list is on the Local 1426 page. GoHereBro tracks 300 IBEW locals.
What Grand Forks is calling for
The exact search "ibew local 1426" put the hall's own job-calls page at number 2. GoHereBro did not show up as a readable result in that top 10. Local 1426 is still the live board, and Search Console already shows that page around position 7. This guide explains the calls. It will go stale. Open the local page before you drive.
The local record's first line says 60 open positions across 24 active calls. That matches the count on the local page. The last 30 days of scrapes saw as many as 86. The headline is the 60 on the board today. The lines on the hall job-calls page add up to those same 60 people. Book counts are not printed. The page points travelers at a remote book-signing procedure and does not give the book numbers.
Parsons wants 17 journeyman wiremen at the Polaris Forge Data Center in Harwood on 6-10s, at $44.80. The same page wants 1 more Parsons journeyman there, 8 from Northern Valley Electrical Service, 1 more from Northern Valley on fire alarms, 3 from Colstrip, 2 from Main Electric, and 1 from Electric Construction Company. Those Harwood data-center lines are 33 of the 60. They are already inside the hall's 60. They are not a second total.
A 6-10 week is 60 hours. No overtime rate is printed on those lines, so the extra 20 hours stay unpriced. What is printed, and only under the conditions on the page: $100 a day incentive Monday through Friday and $150 on Saturday and Sunday, based on the company attendance policy; another $100 a day for a North Dakota license, also based on that attendance policy; and $100 a day per diem, non-taxed, when the GPS radius from the job to the address on your current driver's license is 100 miles or more. On the Parsons 17-person line, a state journeyman license is required and it does not have to be a North Dakota license. The Northern Valley fire-alarm line says the same. Colstrip and Electric Construction say a North Dakota license or the ability to reciprocate. Main, the 8-person Northern Valley line, and the smaller Parsons line say a North Dakota license.
Hunt wants 5 journeyman wiremen at the Grand Forks Air Force Base on 4-10s with 8 hours of overtime on Fridays, at $44.80, plus $100 a day incentive based on company policy and another $100 a day for an electrical license. Real ID or a passport is required. The Friday overtime rate is not printed. Hunt also wants 1 journeyman running a service truck in the Fargo and Moorhead area on 5-8s at $44.80, with North Dakota and Minnesota journeyman licenses. Northern Valley wants 4 journeyman wiremen with a North Dakota license at the Grand Forks Air Base on 4-10s with 8 hours of overtime on Fridays, at $44.80 and $75 a day incentive.
Dakota Electric wants 3 journeyman wiremen in the Fargo and Moorhead area on 4-10s at $43.00, which is below the $44.80 scale, and wants North Dakota and Minnesota licenses. MJ Electric wants 1 journeyman lineman on Xcel properties in Fargo and Grand Forks on 4-10s with overtime, at $58.50, plus $3 an hour if the week is 5 days or more, and $100 a day per diem. That overtime is not given as a rate or an hour count, so it is not priced. Michels Power wants 1 journeyman on a compressor station in St. Vincent, Minnesota, on 6-10s at $44.80 and $200 a day per diem, and the line says no state license is needed. National Conductor wants 1 operator at the Agassiz substation near Harwood, at least 6-10s, with $100 a day per diem and no hourly rate printed.
The other open lines are CityWide for 1 CW-2 on 5-8s, with bidding from 5:00 p.m. on October 30 through 8:00 a.m. on November 2; Rickard for 1 plant electrician on 5-8s; Warrior for 1 journeyman and 1 construction electrician in the Grand Forks area; Northern Valley for 1 journeyman and 1 construction electrician in Grand Forks; Comeau for 2 journeyman wiremen and 1 construction electrician, with the journeyman line starting March 23 at ACS in Drayton; and ArchKey for 1 master tech and 1 senior tech in the Fargo area. Those lines do not print an hourly rate. They are not filled in with the scale.
A 5-8 week or a 4-10 week is 40 hours. At $44.80 that is $1,792.00. Dakota's printed $43.00 for 40 hours is $1,720.00. The lineman line's 40 straight hours at $58.50 are $2,340.00, before the conditional $3 and before the unpriced overtime.
| Week | Rate | Hours | Straight | OT | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale, 5-8s or 4-10s | $44.80 | 40 | $1,792.00 | $0.00 | $1,792.00 |
| Dakota Electric, 4-10s | $43.00 | 40 | $1,720.00 | $0.00 | $1,720.00 |
| MJ lineman, 4-10s straight hours | $58.50 | 40 | $2,340.00 | $0.00 | $2,340.00 |
The local record lists health and welfare at $8.10 and two pension figures, $5.71 and $5.91. Neither figure is on the job-calls page, and the two pension figures do not match, so they are not in the table. The wage explainer is the national version of the 40-hour math. Book 2 travel is the signup path. This hall did not print its book counts.
The job line on the hall page is 701-232-1637, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. on weekdays and anytime on weekends. Bids that arrive between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday are not accepted. Open calls may be taken at any time. Re-signs for people already on the out-of-work list run from the 10th through the 16th of each month. The page also lists dispatch at 701-478-5243. The hall address on file is 1714 N Washington Street, Grand Forks, ND 58203, and the hall phone on file is (701) 775-7601. The North Dakota pay page and the pay hub sit next to the calls. Hot spots and the map cover the rest of the 300 locals. Start at the homepage for the daily board, and use compare when you are stacking this hall against another directory.
North Dakota license, then Minot
The North Dakota State Electrical Board qualifications page says a journeyman electrician shall have completed 8,000 hours of experience, which may not be obtained in less than three years, registered as an apprentice electrician. The same page says up to 3,000 of those hours may apply under other qualifications listed there. The Century Code chapter index lists section 43-09-17 as the journeyman electrician's permit. The longer reciprocity and exam writeup is the North Dakota license guide. The board homepage answered this check.
Local 714 in Minot is the other North Dakota hall: 7 open calls at $43.50. Book counts are not on that record either.
Frequently asked questions
How many IBEW Local 1426 job calls are open?
60 positions on November 1, 2026. That matches the first line of the local record. The 30-day high was 86. The headline is 60.
What does Parsons want?
17 journeyman wiremen at the Polaris Forge Data Center in Harwood on 6-10s at $44.80. A state journeyman license is required and does not have to be North Dakota. A North Dakota license adds $100 a day under the attendance policy.
What is the Local 1426 scale?
$44.80 an hour on the lines that print it. A 40-hour week at that scale is $1,792.00. Dakota Electric prints $43.00. The lineman line prints $58.50.
Does the board print overtime?
The 6-10 lines are 60 hours, and the Air Force Base lines add 8 hours on Friday. No overtime rate is printed, so those extra hours are not priced.
What per diem is printed?
On the Harwood data-center lines, $100 a day when the drive from the job to the address on your driver's license is 100 miles or more. Michels prints $200 a day. National Conductor and the lineman line print $100 a day. The incentive and the North Dakota license money are separate, and both depend on the attendance policy.
What are the book counts?
They are not printed. The job-calls page points travelers to a remote book-signing procedure and does not give Book 1 or Book 2.
Does North Dakota require an electrician license?
Several calls require a state journeyman license, and some require North Dakota specifically. The board's qualifications page says a journeyman applicant needs 8,000 hours over at least three years as a registered apprentice. The longer writeup is the North Dakota license guide.
How do you bid?
Call 701-232-1637 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. on weekdays, or anytime on weekends. Bids between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays are not accepted. Dispatch on the page is 701-478-5243. Re-sign runs from the 10th through the 16th.
