Maintenance Mechanic - 2nd Shift - Harvey Main Plant $40.90/hr. + $1.00/hr. Shift Differential
Location
Harvey, IL
Wage
$40.9/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 10, 2026
Location
Harvey, IL
Wage
$40.9/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 10, 2026
Atkore is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic for their Harvey, IL plant, responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing plant electronic equipment on the 2nd shift. The ideal candidate should have at least 3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 36% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $25–$38/hr middle band drawn from 276 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 82% 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.
Harvey, 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 373 other active welding openings from 233 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Harvey, or widen the search to Illinois.
Atkore 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 (18), Gerber Collision & Glass (14), and Staff on Site (13). 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 Downers Grove at $46/hr, Chicago at $36/hr, and Addison at $32/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 Mechanic - 2nd Shift - Harvey Main Plant $40.90/hr. + $1.00/hr. Shift Differential figures were last recalculated when this page was built.