Blacksmith Site Supervisor- Dayshift
Location
East Peoria, IL
Wage
$42 – $46/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
Location
East Peoria, IL
Wage
$42 – $46/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
Manufacturing Maintenance Solutions is seeking a hands-on Site Supervisor to lead daily operations, support employees, and ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. This role is ideal for a strong leader with industrial maintenance experience.
At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 52% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 142 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 89% 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.
East Peoria, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 174 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Blacksmith Site Supervisor- Dayshift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.