Industrial Maintenance Specialist
Location
Summit, IL
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 3, 2026
Location
Summit, IL
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 3, 2026
The Industrial Maintenance Specialist is responsible for constructing, installing, maintaining, and repairing plant mechanical, structural, hydraulic, or pneumatic equipment according to safety standards. The position requires independent decision-making and proficiency in various mechanical skills.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Illinois currently run a median of $31/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$41/hr across 258 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Summit, 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 348 other active welding openings from 202 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gerber Collision & Glass (17), Staff on Site (13), and S&C Electric Company (10). 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 $39/hr, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Franklin Park at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Industrial Maintenance Specialist figures were last recalculated when this page was built.