General Laborer, Manufacturing
Location
Niles, IL
Wage
$26.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
Location
Niles, IL
Wage
$26.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 27, 2026
Join Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling as a General Laborer in manufacturing. This full-time position involves operating industrial equipment and performing maintenance duties while adhering to safety standards.
At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $27–$39/hr across 265 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 24% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Niles, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 240 employers. 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. General Laborer, Manufacturing figures were last recalculated when this page was built.