Job Description

Overview

Integrated Power Services (IPS) is seeking a skilled Winder to join their team, where employees are encouraged to grow and make a meaningful impact while balancing their professional and personal lives. The role involves rewinding electromechanical equipment and requires a combination of technical skills and experience.

Responsibilities

  • Rewind various kinds of electromechanical equipment.
  • Dismantle and/or strip damaged or unserviceable electromechanical equipment, including media blasting.
  • Inspect various kinds of electromechanical equipment for winding damage and evidence of electrical malfunctions.
  • Document/record all relevant data specific to unit’s electromagnetic characteristics, operating conditions, existing damage, or intended serviceability.
  • Prepare all reusable parts for rewinding and inspect renewed parts for hidden, structural damage or unusual conditions.
  • Ability to strip stator or apparatus without damage to core or iron.
  • Test rewound electromechanical equipment according to EASA Standards and document test results.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in rewinding AC and DC electric motors.
  • Prior practice in winding fields, armatures, and synchronous rotor poles.
  • Ability to perform basic math functions including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division including understanding fractions.
  • Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple to moderately complex written and verbal instructions.
  • Ability to understand, perform, and retain various job-related training, operational, and safety procedures.
  • Ability to operate and perform VPI.
  • Ability to exercise initiative, judgment, and decision making related to routine duties within set company standards.
  • Ability to operate machinery and hoists.

Benefits

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

Benefits

PTO
401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision

How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Chicago, IL currently run a median of $38/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $31–$47/hr across 90 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 103 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 64 different employers. 38 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 238 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.

Integrated Power Services currently has 1 other opening live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (12), and Gerber Collision & Glass (11). 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 $38/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Downers Grove at $36/hr. Chicago is among them.

Similar openings near Chicago, IL

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