Welder Pipefitter Fabricator
Location
Chicago Heights, IL
Wage
$34 – $37/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 1, 2026
Location
Chicago Heights, IL
Wage
$34 – $37/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 1, 2026
The Pipefitter Millwright installs, fabricates, and repairs industrial piping systems and mechanical equipment in a job shop environment. This role combines advanced pipefitting and welding with millwright responsibilities, while working closely with maintenance, engineering, and production teams to deliver high-quality projects on schedule.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 22% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $25–$36/hr middle band drawn from 164 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 75% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Chicago 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 238 other active welding openings from 161 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
Aerotek currently has 4 other openings 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 Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (11), and Gerber Collision & Glass (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, Peoria at $31/hr, and South Beloit at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Stick work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
See all pipefitter openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder Pipefitter Fabricator figures were last recalculated when this page was built.