Engineering Technician
Location
Northlake, IL
Wage
$60,000 – $80,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 21, 2026
Location
Northlake, IL
Wage
$60,000 – $80,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 21, 2026
SIG is seeking a detail-oriented and skilled Engineering Technician to join their manufacturing team in Northlake. In this role, the technician will be responsible for assembling mechanical equipment and ensuring all assemblies meet quality standards and engineering specifications.
At roughly $34/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $25–$38/hr across 250 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 60% 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 Northlake, 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 361 other active welding openings from 262 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
SIG Group currently has 1 other opening live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
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 Ingersoll Rand (5). 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. Engineering Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.