Repair Technician I
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$22 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$22 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
Regal Rexnord is seeking a Repair Technician I for their Aerospace and Defense business, which is experiencing rapid growth. This fully onsite role involves working with machinery and tools to assemble and validate parts, offering an opportunity for career advancement in a supportive culture with competitive pay and benefits.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 21% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $25–$38/hr across 252 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 24% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
Downers Grove, IL currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 265 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Downers Grove, or widen the search to Illinois.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (18), 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 $36/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Melrose Park at $34/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. Repair Technician I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.