Assembler I
Location
Harwood Heights, IL
Wage
$18.76 – $28.14/hr
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location
Harwood Heights, IL
Wage
$18.76 – $28.14/hr
Posted on August 27, 2026
The Assembler I follows process sheets, drawings, and quality specifications to assemble and test mechanical seals and aerospace subassemblies at Enpro, a leading industrial technology company focused on critical applications across various end-markets.
At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 24% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $25–$38/hr across 249 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 21% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Harwood Heights, 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 367 other active welding openings from 265 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 (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. Assembler I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.