Welder and Fabricator
Location
Carol Stream, IL
Wage
$20 – $25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 24, 2026
Location
Carol Stream, IL
Wage
$20 – $25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 24, 2026
Now hiring for a Welder and Fabricator
Location: Carol Stream, IL
Pay Rate: $20.00 – $25.00 per hour
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:45 AM – 3:45 PM
MIG Welders Wanted – Get Ready to Make Sparks Fly
Looking for Welder and Fabricator jobs in Carol Stream where your welding skills help build quality products? This opportunity lets you apply your craftsmanship to fabricate, join, and repair metal components while supporting safe, efficient manufacturing operations. You will perform welding operations using MIG, TIG, Stick, or Flux-Core processes. If your skills and experience are a good match for this role please apply today. This opportunity is based on a Welder career path and is being offered by Staffmark to qualified candidates.
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“I have no complaints. They’ve always been really nice and helpful anytime I’ve needed anything.” — Welder, Staffmark.
Heat it up, lock it in. This MIG welder spot is yours.
What You Will Do As a Welder and Fabricator you will prepare materials, set up welding equipment, perform MIG welding operations, inspect completed welds, read blueprints, verify measurements, and help fabricate metal components according to engineering specifications. You will maintain welding equipment, follow quality standards, and support safe, efficient manufacturing operations while producing consistent, high-quality work.
A Welder and Fabricator contributes to manufacturing operations by producing high-quality welded assemblies using MIG welding equipment and established fabrication procedures. This position requires welding expertise, mechanical aptitude, and commitment to quality.
The Welder and Fabricator supports production through careful material preparation, accurate welding techniques, and consistent inspection of completed work while maintaining safe operating practices. Precision and reliability are central to professional success.
This profession rewards individuals who enjoy technical craftsmanship and fabrication work.
At roughly $23/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $23/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $22–$29/hr across 16 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Carol Stream, 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 235 other active welding openings from 172 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 (8), 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.
This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
See all welder fabricator openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder and Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.