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Overview

The Fabricator is responsible for making, repairing, adapting, and rectifying tools and mechanical equipment with high precision under direct supervision. This role involves interpreting blueprints, operating mechanical tools, and modifying dies to conform to engineering changes.

Responsibilities

  • Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
  • Examines work pieces for defects and measures them to ensure conformance with specifications.
  • Verifies conformance of work pieces to specifications using various measuring tools.
  • Sets up and operates fabricating machines to bend, cut, form, punch, drill or assemble components.
  • May position, align, fit and weld parts to form complete units or subunits.
  • Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
  • Keeps work area clean.
  • Studies engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.

Requirements

  • Typically requires a high school diploma or GED.
  • Knowledge of monitoring gauges and indicators to ensure machine operation.
  • Ability to read and understand work orders.
  • Knowledge of mathematics and its application.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Woodridge, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $25/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $22–$29/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 10% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Woodridge, IL

Woodridge, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 353 other active welding openings from 224 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

Motion currently has 1 other opening live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (14), Gerber Collision & Glass (13), and Staff on Site (13). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $38/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.