Maintenance Technician
Location
Northlake, IL
Wage
$70,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
Location
Northlake, IL
Wage
$70,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
Misfits Market is a mission-driven startup focused on reducing food waste and providing affordable, sustainable groceries. The Maintenance Technician plays a crucial role in ensuring smooth operations within the fulfillment center by minimizing equipment downtime.
At roughly $34/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $27–$39/hr across 265 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Northlake, 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 371 other active welding openings from 240 employers. Browse welding jobs across 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. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.