Job Description

Overview

The 202 Tech position involves setting up and monitoring engineering and production audit tests, ensuring data accuracy, and developing software solutions for testing procedures. The role requires troubleshooting and maintaining test equipment, as well as documenting processes and training laboratory personnel.

Responsibilities

  • Set up, start, monitor, and complete engineering and production audit tests.
  • Check raw data for accuracy during collection.
  • Inform laboratory personnel of any issues with test equipment or data collection.
  • Document the completion of tests properly.
  • Assist in training for proper test setup and completion.
  • Communicate and resolve difficulties in test performance.
  • Develop software solutions for new standard tests with documentation and training.
  • Create analysis templates for new test procedures and check their accuracy.
  • Document modifications to templates and train affected personnel.
  • Store reduced data in appropriate network folders.
  • Verify the accuracy of raw data and handle necessary adjustments.
  • Execute preventive maintenance work orders timely and document machinery logs.
  • Troubleshoot machine behavior to determine root causes.
  • Lead repairs of test equipment and document repair activities.
  • Coordinate non-standard housekeeping initiatives and suggest improvements.
  • Develop preventive maintenance schedules based on engineering knowledge.
  • Make modifications to existing test control programs as necessary.
  • Order replacements for worn or broken test fixtures.
  • Create test control programs from product parameters.
  • Suggest and implement efficiency improvements to laboratory processes.
  • Assist in developing test fixtures and make drawing revisions.
  • Develop control software and enhancements including testing and training.
  • Document incoming test requests and update schedules.
  • Generate documentation for replenishing laboratory supplies.
  • Solicit vendor quotes and perform competitive analysis.
  • Generate work requests for maintenance personnel as necessary.
  • Coordinate shipping activities from the laboratory.

Requirements

  • Associates degree in a technical discipline preferred.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
  • Experience developing programs using Visual Basic or similar languages.
  • Understanding of hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, drives, and controls.
  • Proficient in CAD for mechanical component design.
  • Experience with sensors and data acquisition systems.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and repair electrical and mechanical systems.
  • Capable of automation programming with high-speed data acquisition.

Benefits

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

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Bellwood, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 12% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$39/hr middle band drawn from 265 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 60% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Bellwood, IL

Bellwood, IL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 241 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

BorgWarner 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.

Similar openings near Bellwood, IL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. 202 Tech figures were last recalculated when this page was built.