Railway Car Technician (Car Mechanic)- FR
Location
Gary, IN
Wage
$42.49/hr
Posted on August 31, 2026
Location
Gary, IN
Wage
$42.49/hr
Posted on August 31, 2026
The Railway Car Technician (Car Mechanic) position at CN involves inspecting, maintaining, building, and repairing railway freight cars and equipment. CN is committed to safety, integrity, and collaboration, providing a meaningful career in a skilled trades environment.
At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 47% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Indiana — toward the top of a $23–$31/hr middle band drawn from 95 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 97% 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.
Gary, IN currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 172 other active welding openings from 110 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Gary, or widen the search to Indiana.
The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are NCW (36), Aerotek (6), and SMS group (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Railway Car Technician (Car Mechanic)- FR figures were last recalculated when this page was built.