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Atkore

Maintenance Electrician - 2nd Shift $43.06/hr. + $1.00/hr. Shift Differential

Location

Harvey, IL

Wage

$43.06/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

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Posted on August 29, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Atkore is seeking an experienced Maintenance Electrician for their facility in Harvey, IL, responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing plant electronic equipment. The role requires a strong sense of urgency and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Align, adjust and calibrate electronic equipment.
  • Dismantle devices to gain access to and remove defective parts.
  • Replace or repair defective parts, reassemble devices and start devices to test for proper performance.
  • Install electrical circuits following blueprints & schematic diagrams.
  • Inspect circuits and wiring for specified shielding & grounding, and repair or rewire systems according to building codes and safety regulation.
  • Lay out and install conduit runs.
  • Repair mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic components of electrical equipment.
  • Use precision measuring and testing instruments.
  • Perform construction and rigging activities as required.
  • Build and repair induction boxes and determine number of turns for new sizes.
  • Build high frequency coil as required for mill welding systems.
  • Monitor and maintain temperatures of zinc pots and inductions.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience as a maintenance electrician in industrial manufacturing.
  • Strong sense of time organization and sense of urgency.
  • Ability to pass the post offer employment process with drug screen.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Position is based out of Harvey, IL, approximately 30 miles south of Downtown Chicago.
  • This position is subject to a collective bargaining agreement.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Harvey, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 39% 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 82% 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 Harvey, IL

Harvey, IL currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 241 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Harvey, or widen the search to Illinois.

Atkore 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 Harvey, IL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Electrician - 2nd Shift $43.06/hr. + $1.00/hr. Shift Differential figures were last recalculated when this page was built.