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Job Description

Overview

This is a great opportunity to get involved with exciting and challenging projects within various industries for career development and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Complete project specific objectives under direction of a Senior Mechanical Engineer.
  • Specify, evaluate bids, and perform vendor document review for process equipment such as pressure vessels, tanks, pumps, and heat exchangers.
  • Perform calculations for equipment and piping.
  • Specify materials for process and utility piping services.
  • Attend client, vendor, and internal team project meetings.
  • Perform field surveys to collect required field data and assist with interpretation of engineering drawings and specifications in the field.

Requirements

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability
  • 401k

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability
401k
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How this job compares in Downers Grove, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 21% above the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Downers Grove, IL — toward the top of a $30–$46/hr middle band drawn from 8 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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 Downers Grove, IL

We're tracking 10 other active welding openings in Downers Grove, IL right now, from 8 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 367 other active welding openings from 238 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.

Zachry Group currently has 2 other openings 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. Downers Grove is among them.

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