Maintenance Technician II - UniFirst
Location
Melrose Park, IL
Wage
$25.3 – $35.14/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 8, 2026
Location
Melrose Park, IL
Wage
$25.3 – $35.14/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 8, 2026
UniFirst is seeking a reliable and hardworking Maintenance Tech II to join their community, handling repairs, maintenance, installation, and troubleshooting of industrial equipment. The company offers a standard Monday - Friday work week with periodic night and weekend overtime, and provides on-the-job training.
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–$40/hr across 243 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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.
Melrose Park, IL currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 340 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 Melrose 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), Gerber Collision & Glass (11), and S&C Electric Company (9). 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, Addison at $35/hr, and Skokie at $35/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. Maintenance Technician II - UniFirst figures were last recalculated when this page was built.