Field Service Technician – 100% Travel (Rotational Position 4 weeks traveling, 1 week off)
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$32.49 – $52.97/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 26, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$32.49 – $52.97/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 26, 2026
Invenergy is North America’s largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of power infrastructure, delivering reliable energy through a diverse portfolio. The Field Service Technician will perform and train on major component replacements and repairs across the Invenergy fleet while traveling for 4 weeks and returning home for 1 week.
At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 19% above the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL — toward the top of a $27–$50/hr middle band drawn from 81 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
We're tracking 110 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 75 different employers. 38 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 361 other active welding openings from 261 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.
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 Ingersoll Rand (5). 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 $36/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Melrose Park at $34/hr. Chicago is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Service Technician – 100% Travel (Rotational Position 4 weeks traveling, 1 week off) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.