Sleeve Cutter - 2nd Shift (1:00pm - 9:00pm)
Location
Woodridge, IL
Wage
$16.56 – $18.28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 3, 2026
Location
Woodridge, IL
Wage
$16.56 – $18.28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 3, 2026
The Sleeve Cutter position at Parker Hannifin involves operating trimming or sleeve cutting machines while ensuring safety and quality standards are met. The company is a global leader in motion and control technologies, committed to engineering breakthroughs that improve lives and strengthen communities.
At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 46% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $27–$39/hr across 263 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 1% 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.
Woodridge, IL currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 238 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Woodridge, or widen the search to Illinois.
Parker Hannifin 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 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. Sleeve Cutter - 2nd Shift (1:00pm - 9:00pm) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.