Service Technician
Location
Franklin Park, IL
Wage
$28 – $32/hr
Posted on September 18, 2026
Location
Franklin Park, IL
Wage
$28 – $32/hr
Posted on September 18, 2026
The Service Technician role involves performing skilled mechanical work in the repair and maintenance of coaches, contributing to sustainable transport solutions. The position emphasizes teamwork, customer service, and ongoing professional development within the Volvo Group.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $27–$39/hr across 247 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 41% 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.
Franklin Park, IL currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 333 other active welding openings from 206 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Franklin Park, or widen the search to Illinois.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (10), and Gerber Collision & Glass (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 $37/hr, Elk Grove Village at $36/hr, and Bedford 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. Service Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.