Job Description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • Assemble, install or repair wiring, electrical and electronic components, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic machinery and equipment.
  • Repair or replace defective equipment parts using hand tools and power tools, and reassemble equipment.
  • Perform routine preventive maintenance to ensure that machines continue to run smoothly.
  • Inspect, operate, and test machinery and equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
  • Dismantle devices to access and remove defective parts using hoists, cranes, hand tools, and power tools.
  • Perform and coordinate scheduled and unscheduled maintenance/repairs of production support and facilities equipment.
  • Assist in the installation and commissioning of new equipment.
  • Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain all new and existing production and production support equipment.
  • Initiate and maintain records within the maintenance electronic tracking system.
  • Ensure safety policies and procedures for performing maintenance activities are in place.
  • Maintain a safe, clean, and secure work area.
  • Support 5S, lean and continuous improvement activities.
  • Monitor work performed by outside contractors.
  • Finalize purchase orders for repair parts and maintain inventory of critical parts.
  • Clean and lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, and other parts of machinery.

Additional Information

  • 1st and 2nd Shift
  • Location: Broadview, IL

How this job compares in Broadview, IL

Pay in context

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.

The local market in Broadview, IL

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.

Similar openings near Broadview, IL

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