Job Description

Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic position at Mauser Packaging Solutions involves setting up, repairing, and maintaining press line equipment while ensuring quality production. The role requires a skilled specialist to perform various mechanical tasks and troubleshoot equipment issues in a dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform duties to set up, repair and maintain press line equipment.
  • Work from blueprints, manuals, schedules, and instructions.
  • Set up and maintain equipment such as punch presses, conveyor systems, compo liners, curlers, and automatic tape machines.
  • Set tooling and make a variety of equipment adjustments.
  • Operate equipment, run sample units, check units, and make required operating adjustments.
  • Instruct and assist operators as necessary.
  • Troubleshoot and repair equipment, diagnose problems, disassemble, determine extent of repairs necessary, obtain or requisition parts, assemble, test, and make adjustments.
  • Maintain equipment, clean and lubricate equipment, and maintain automatic lube systems.
  • Monitor press line operations and check quality of units being produced.
  • Fill out required maintenance records.
  • Notify supervisor of unusual equipment or operating problems.
  • Help relieve operators for lunch and break.
  • Use various precision measuring instruments, common hand and hand power tools, hand carts, and forklift truck.
  • Follow safety rules and keep work area in a clean and orderly condition.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • 2-3 years’ experience in maintenance mechanics.
  • Knowledge of repair procedures and equipment operation, equivalent to 1-2 years applied trades training.
  • Ability to use mathematics together with the analytical use of complicated prints.
  • Ability to use various types of precision measuring instruments such as micrometers and calipers.
  • Ability to exercise judgment.
  • Must comply with quality, PPE requirements, and safety policies.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
PTO

How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, whose middle half runs $31–$47/hr across 90 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 104 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 65 different employers. 44 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 240 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.

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 Chicago at $38/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Downers Grove at $36/hr. Chicago is among them.

Similar openings near Chicago, IL

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- 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.