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Job Description

Overview

At NPAA, employees are considered the greatest strength, and the company offers a competitive rewards package including bonuses, time off, health plans, and career growth opportunities. The Maintenance Mechanic position involves repairing and servicing mechanical equipment in various settings.

Responsibilities

  • Perform various preventive maintenance activities and complete repair work orders.
  • Trouble-shoot process equipment issues and perform repairs.
  • Trouble-shoot motor control systems and replace defective devices.
  • Trouble-shoot plant instrumentation and perform repairs.
  • Conduct mobile equipment repairs such as forklifts and aerial lifts.
  • Maintain systems to be mechanically compliant with state regulations.
  • Participate in various site improvement programs.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma.
  • Technical School Certification or 2-3 years’ experience or equivalent combination.
  • Experience in automation or fabrication required.
  • Ability to interpret basic mechanical and electrical schematics.
  • Experience with Welding and Piping Assembly preferred.
  • Have valid driver’s license.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Lansing, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $32/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 66% 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 Lansing, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lansing, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 174 employers. 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.

Similar openings near Lansing, IL

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- 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.