Job Description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • Regularly cleans, inspects, and lubricates equipment.
  • Replaces or repairs defective parts on conveyors, tape machines, stock carts, etc.
  • Completes general plumbing, electrical, and painting as needed.
  • Operates electrical equipment, hand tools, and power tools safely.
  • Conducts maintenance and repairs on refrigeration and HVAC systems.
  • Conducts preventative maintenance on all equipment located within the facility.
  • Completes facility inspections and reports as required.
  • Coordinates scheduled and unscheduled maintenance orders with external contractors.
  • Participates in continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Leads the sanitation and housekeeping efforts for the facility.
  • Follows facility safety practices and shop housekeeping practices.
  • Promotes occupational safety standards and gives feedback on safety performance.
  • Works cross-functionally with IT to troubleshoot technical issues.
  • Responds to emergency maintenance calls.
  • Completes routine administrative functions such as filling out PM work orders.
  • Maintains regular inventory of spare parts and executes reorders when necessary.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalency.
  • 2 years of mechanical or automotive maintenance experience working on equipment.
  • Must not have an aversion to heights.
  • Required to lift and carry equipment that weighs up to 60 pounds.
  • An associate degree or 2-year Technical Degree in Mechanical or Automotive Maintenance and Repair is preferred.
  • Skilled in forklift and aerial lift operation is preferred.
  • Experience working in a food manufacturing facility is preferred.
  • Excellent conflict resolution and decision-making abilities.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Northlake, IL

Pay in context

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.

The local market in Northlake, IL

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.

Similar openings near Northlake, 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 Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.