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Job Description

Overview

IGE Fans has been a leader in high-temperature fan and sealed motor innovation since 1924 and is experiencing significant growth. They seek an experienced MIG and Stick welder to join their team, working with various high-grade alloys in their manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities

  • Weld with mild steel, stainless steel, and various high-grade alloys.
  • Layout workpieces according to mechanical drawings.
  • Read mechanical assembly drawings.
  • Set up own welding machine.
  • Use hand and power tools common to welding.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience welding similar materials.
  • Experience with steel fabrication and welding (Stick & MIG, stainless steel welding).
  • Ability to read blueprints or mechanical drawings.
  • Ability to use electric hoist to raise and lower parts to worktable.
  • Ability to use hand plasma cutter.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Welding certification is a plus but not required.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Fully site-based at IGE's manufacturing facility & headquarters in Westmont, IL.
  • The facility is a 3-minute walk from the Westmont BNSF Metra train station.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Westmont, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 142 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 58% 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 Westmont, IL

Westmont, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 174 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (14), Gerber Collision & Glass (9), 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 $33/hr and Peoria at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and Stick work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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