Maintenance Mechanic
Location
Melrose Park, IL
Wage
$30 – $32/hr
Posted on August 26, 2026
Location
Melrose Park, IL
Wage
$30 – $32/hr
Posted on August 26, 2026
The Maintenance Mechanic position involves performing preventative maintenance, operational functions, and repairs to manufacturing equipment in a regulated environment. The role requires a minimum of 3 years of experience and offers 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 $25–$38/hr across 244 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% 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.
Melrose Park, IL currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was 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 Melrose Park, 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 Itasca at $56/hr, Chicago at $36/hr, and Melrose Park at $34/hr. Melrose Park is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.