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Overview

John Zink is hiring a Field Service Engineer in the Fired Equipment Group to support customers across various industries, focusing on the installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, and maintenance of industrial fired equipment critical to safe operations.

Responsibilities

  • Travel to customer facilities to support installation, inspection, troubleshooting, and repair of fired equipment.
  • Diagnose and resolve electrical issues on combustion systems.
  • Provide technical expertise on register burners, duct burners, and utility burners.
  • Lead with safety in field execution and identify risks in industrial environments.
  • Interpret P&IDs, mechanical drawings, and system layouts to implement solutions.
  • Support and interface with instrumentation and controls systems.
  • Calibrate, test, and maintain field instrumentation to support system performance.
  • Build strong relationships with customer operations and maintenance teams.
  • Maintain accurate documentation including service reports and updates.

Requirements

  • Experience troubleshooting, installing, and maintaining industrial electrical, instrumentation, and mechanical systems.
  • Experience working with PLC-based control systems.
  • Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, electrical schematics, and control systems.
  • Willingness and ability to travel approximately 75%.
  • Valid driver’s license and ability to obtain a TWIC within six weeks.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a home-based role with approximately 75% travel to customer sites.
  • Candidates must live within reasonable commuting distance of a major airport.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 18% 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 69% 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.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 111 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 76 different employers. 44 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 265 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 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 Chicago at $36/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Melrose Park at $34/hr. Chicago is among them.

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