Machinist II, 3rd shift
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$26 – $33/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$26 – $33/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 2, 2026
Regal Rexnord is seeking a Machinist II for the 3rd shift in a fully onsite role. The position offers competitive pay based on experience, a sign-on bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting comes in about 33% below the $44/hr median for welding jobs in Downers Grove, IL, where the middle half runs $36–$46/hr across 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 25% 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 7 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 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 Downers Grove, 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 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. Machinist II, 3rd shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.