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Job Description

Overview

The Lead Container Shop Welder is responsible for performing repairs, maintenance, and installation of compactors and other stationary equipment, focusing on hydraulics, basic electrical operations, and welding fabrication. Republic Services, a leader in the environmental services industry, aims to provide sustainable solutions and has a strong commitment to customer service and community impact.

Responsibilities

  • Performs inspections, conducts diagnostic tests, preventative maintenance, and repairs on varied types of compactors and other stationary equipment.
  • Reads electrical schematics and diagnoses and repairs electrical problems on equipment using both single and three phase AC voltage.
  • Reads hydraulic schematics and diagnoses and repairs hydraulic issues on equipment.
  • Maintains knowledge of proper installation of compactors and other types of stationary equipment, performing or assisting with installations as scheduled.
  • Performs welding and fabrication work as needed.
  • Ensures and maintains efficiencies to handle all scheduled jobs in a given day.
  • Completes paperwork and enters data associated with repairing relevant equipment accurately and timely.
  • Follows all safety policies and procedures.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Equipment maintenance and repair experience.
  • Welding and/or fabrication skills and/or experience.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Employee discount programs
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Short- and long-term disability
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Employee discount programs
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Midlothian, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $38/hr median for lead welder jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $36–$44/hr across 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Midlothian, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Midlothian, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 349 other active welding openings from 224 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

Republic Services 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), Staff on Site (13), and Gerber Collision & Glass (11). 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. Lead Container Shop Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.