Maintenance Technician - 3rd Shift
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 3, 2026
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 3, 2026
Since 1869, the company has connected people through food they love, offering a portfolio that includes iconic brands such as Campbell’s, Goldfish, and V8. As a Maintenance Technician on the 3rd shift, you will play a critical role in ensuring the facility operates safely and efficiently.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting comes in about 18% below the $44/hr median for welding jobs in Downers Grove, IL, where the middle half runs $30–$46/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
We're tracking 10 other active welding openings in Downers Grove, IL right now, from 8 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 241 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Downers Grove, or widen the search to Illinois.
The Campbell's Company 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 Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (12), and Gerber Collision & Glass (11). 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 Downers Grove at $44/hr, Chicago at $38/hr, and Itasca at $36/hr. Downers Grove 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 Technician - 3rd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.