Machine Maintenance Technician – 1st and 2nd Shift
Location
Broadview, IL
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 30, 2026
Location
Broadview, IL
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 30, 2026
Principal Manufacturing is seeking a Machine Maintenance Technician to join our team in Broadview, IL. The technician will ensure that the facility remains operational by performing various maintenance tasks on machinery and equipment.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Illinois currently run a median of $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$39/hr across 266 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Broadview, 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 240 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. 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. Machine Maintenance Technician – 1st and 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.