Sr Maintenance Tech
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$40 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 11, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$40 – $45/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 11, 2026
Ingersoll Rand is seeking a Senior Maintenance Technician to perform high-level mechanical, electrical, thermal, and fluid power maintenance on specialized production equipment in a rubber molding manufacturing facility. The role emphasizes minimizing machine downtime, diagnosing complex system failures, and mentoring junior technicians while adhering to strict safety standards.
At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 12% above the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL — toward the top of a $30–$47/hr middle band drawn from 74 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 69% 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.
We're tracking 103 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 60 different employers. 35 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 343 other active welding openings from 208 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, 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 Downers Grove at $44/hr, Chicago at $38/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. Chicago 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. Sr Maintenance Tech figures were last recalculated when this page was built.