Maintenance Technician
Location
McCook, IL
Wage
$30.8 – $31.8/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 26, 2026
Location
McCook, IL
Wage
$30.8 – $31.8/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 26, 2026
The Maintenance Technician position involves performing preventative maintenance and repairs on equipment, as well as building-related installations and maintenance. The role is part of the Reyes Family of Businesses, which prioritizes the well-being of its employees through a comprehensive benefits package.
At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $24–$38/hr across 208 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 54% 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 McCook, 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 Itasca at $56/hr, Chicago at $36/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. Maintenance Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.