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Job Description

Overview

As a Manufacturing Associate at Howmet Aerospace, located in Skokie, IL, you will be part of a team responsible for assembly operations on the 2nd shift. The company specializes in advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries.

Responsibilities

  • Safely perform a variety of assembly operations, complying with all environmental, health and safety policies and procedures.
  • Operate a variety of manufacturing equipment following established Standard Operating Procedures.
  • Assist with line set ups, start up and maintaining a clean and orderly work area.
  • Maintain quality standards by visually inspecting parts, components and subassemblies.
  • Recognize and solve minor problems that arise.
  • Perform any necessary material handling requirements of the job.
  • Perform other duties that may be assigned.

Requirements

  • Ability to perform basic math - add, subtract, multiply whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
  • Strong orientation toward quality, safety and continuous improvement.
  • Strong attention to detail.
  • Desire to learn new skills and improve technical knowledge.
  • Ability to read and understand procedure, routers and instruction.
  • Flexibility in work assignments.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively implement or respond to change.
  • Previous manufacturing experience preferred but not required.

Additional Information

  • Must be able to continuously perform grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and walking.
  • Must be able to handle continuous standing 8-10 hours daily.
  • Must be able to perform frequent lifting up to 50 lbs.
  • Must be able to work daily, weekly overtime and weekend as required.
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How this job compares in Skokie, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 35% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $24–$38/hr across 182 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 Skokie, IL

Skokie, IL currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 266 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Skokie, or widen the search to Illinois.

Howmet Aerospace currently has 3 other openings 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 (18), Gerber Collision & Glass (8), and Aerotek (7). 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 Itasca at $56/hr, Chicago at $36/hr, and Peoria at $31/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. Production Assembler -2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.