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Job Description

Overview

The Sheet Metal Worker position at the Department of Fleet and Facility Management involves performing journey-level sheet metal work, including fabrication, installation, and repair of sheet metal materials and parts. This role is open to the public and current City employees under a collective bargaining agreement.

Responsibilities

  • Read blueprints, specifications, and work orders to assess work required.
  • Fabricate, install, and repair heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning duct systems.
  • Ensure adequate supplies of tools, equipment, and materials are at work sites.
  • Make calculations and use measuring devices for layout work.
  • Cut, bend, and shape pieces using power and machine tools.
  • Inspect the accuracy and quality of fabricated parts and make necessary adjustments.
  • Fasten pieces of sheet metal including seams and joints with various connecting devices.
  • Install sheet metal parts and products, lifting and setting parts in place.
  • Drill holes and install brackets and metal hangers to secure sheet metal parts.
  • Operate specialized equipment including hacksaws, punch and drill presses, and welding equipment.
  • Fabricate sheet metal parts for vehicles such as fire trucks and police vehicles.
  • Prepare work activity reports.
  • Load, transport, and unload equipment and supplies as required.
  • Erect scaffolds to perform sheet metal work above ground level.

Requirements

  • Successful completion of a US Department of Labor registered sheet metal apprenticeship training program and journeyman status.
  • Successful completion of an industry or company sponsored apprenticeship training program in sheet metal work plus two years of journey-level work experience.
  • Six years of journey-level work experience as a Sheet Metal Worker.
  • A Driver’s License is required at the time of hire.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
  • Ability to stand and walk for extended periods.
  • Ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with one's body.
  • Ability to climb staircases, ladders, and/or step stools.
  • Ability to operate applicable hand tools, power tools, and equipment.
  • Ability to tolerate heights while working.

Additional Information

  • Location: Varies
  • Days: Varies
  • Hours: Varies
  • This position is in the career service.
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How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $57/hr, this posting sits about 72% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL — toward the top of a $25–$39/hr middle band drawn from 36 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 92% 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 56 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 36 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 175 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.

City of Chicago 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 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. Chicago 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. SHEET METAL WORKER figures were last recalculated when this page was built.