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Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic position at Ferrara involves conducting repairs and preventative maintenance on manufacturing equipment to ensure continuous operation. This role requires flexibility in working hours and the ability to work overtime as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Disassembles, inspects, reassembles, troubleshoots, repairs and replaces malfunctioning parts or equipment using test equipment and meters.
  • Cleans, lubricates and adjusts guides, flap tuckers, sealing jaws, sensors, servos, and timing for process systems of packaging equipment.
  • Performs routine preventive maintenance procedures as per schedule.
  • Installs change parts on production machinery to accommodate different sizes or products.
  • Reads blueprints, diagrams, and machinery manuals to diagnose problems and learn proper equipment operation.
  • Installs new equipment.
  • Actively seeks to find and correct problems in the assignment area with high supervision.
  • Communicates conditions of equipment by completing maintenance records and informing supervisors of significant problems.
  • Works closely with Production personnel.
  • Improves work-related skills by pursuing outside schooling or plant-provided programs.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Basic mathematical skills.
  • Ability to walk or stand for prolonged periods and lift up to 50 pounds.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
  • Promotes teamwork and exhibits flexibility and willingness to perform tasks as needed.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting abilities.
  • Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
  • Completed Maintenance Certification.
  • Ability to problem solve by adjusting variables in standardized situations.

Benefits

  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work Location: Itasca
  • This is a 3rd Shift position, 10:30pm-7:00am.
  • Position requires the ability to work overtime and varying start times, end times, and weekends.

Benefits

PTO
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How this job compares in Itasca, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 23% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$39/hr middle band drawn from 265 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 71% 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 Itasca, IL

Itasca, IL currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 241 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Itasca, or widen the search to Illinois.

Ferrara currently has 2 other openings 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. Itasca is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic-3rd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.