Engineer I Piping
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$75,400 – $106,163/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 15, 2026
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$75,400 – $106,163/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 15, 2026
Zachry Group is currently accepting applications for a Piping Engineer I for their Downers Grove Design Center office location. This position offers an opportunity to engage in interesting and challenging 3D design projects.
At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 41% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $26–$40/hr middle band drawn from 255 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 80% 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.
Downers Grove, IL currently has 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 8 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 343 other active welding openings from 208 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Downers Grove, or widen the search to Illinois.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gerber Collision & Glass (14), Sargent & Lundy (11), and S&C Electric Company (9). 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, Downers Grove at $36/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. Downers Grove is among them.
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 Piping figures were last recalculated when this page was built.