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Overview

At Monroe Truck Equipment, an Aebi Schmidt brand located in Joliet, Illinois, we pride ourselves on innovation, collaboration and dedication to excellence. We are committed to delivering superior solutions to our customers as well as providing rewarding career opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Reads and comprehends blueprints.
  • Selects equipment and plans layout, assembly, and welding from blueprints.
  • Lays out, positions, aligns, and fits components together.
  • Bolts, clamps, and tack-welds part to secure in position for welding.
  • Sets up equipment and welds parts, GMAW MIG.
  • Fabricate and design non-engineered parts.

Requirements

  • One year certificate from college or technical school in welding/fabrication (a plus).
  • 3+ years' experience welding in a production environment.
  • Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. without assistance.
  • Ability to work from various squatting, kneeling, or bending positions.
  • Ability to read, understand, and carry out instructions as detailed in blueprints.
  • Proficient in adding, subtracting, multiplication, and division in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Proficient in the computation of rate, ratio, and percent and its application in practical situations.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Shift: 1st
  • Location: Joliet, Illinois

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Vision
Dental
Life & Disability Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Joliet, IL

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Illinois currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $25–$38/hr across 277 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Joliet, IL

Joliet, IL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 373 other active welding openings from 232 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (18), Gerber Collision & Glass (14), and Staff on Site (13). 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 $46/hr, Chicago at $36/hr, and Addison at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

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