Job Description

This is a job working for Big Tex Trailer World

Competitive Hourly Pay

$3,500 Sign-on/Retention Bonus Available!

Summary

The Service Technician 2 is responsible for the organization and safety of the service areas of the facility. Sells parts and performs advanced service repairs / fabrication work. Engages with customers to sell, discuss, and explain repairs, installations, and solutions. Ensures that a proper supply of regularly needed shop supplies is maintained through communication with management.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Perform service, repair, and accessory installation on new and used trailers, truck beds, trailer tow vehicles and snowplows. Partner with supervisor to maintain Service Schedule. Examine, test, adjust, and repair bearings, lights, wiring, and brake assemblies of trailers and tow vehicles. Replace and repair worn and defective parts. Lay out drills, screws, rivets, and welds to repair, replace and/or install parts / accessories on trailers, truck beds, tow vehicles, snowplows, accessories and Installs wood or metal flooring. Perform multi-point inspections to assess customer service and parts needs. Confer in person and by phone with customers, write and read work orders. List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, diagrams and must have the ability to quote service work. Sell parts and service. Help customers hook up a trailer. Perform visual safety inspection (lights, safety chain, decking, etc.) Perform warranty service and completes required documentation. Complete service paperwork or computer system entry completely and timely. Maintain service parts log and submit to management as required. Assist in the maintenance of parts inventory for store including purchasing of parts and supplies, receiving PO’s, and Cycle Counts. Assemble trailers. Park and move Trailers. Other duties, as assigned

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

High School Diploma or equivalent (GED) Proven ability to weld (MIG and oxy-acetylene) Valid Driver’s License Associates Degree, Trade School Diploma preferred 2-3 years applicable work experience preferred Must be available to work Monday – Saturday and overtime as needed

How this job compares in Homer Glen, 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 $26–$38/hr across 238 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 Homer Glen, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Homer Glen, 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 373 other active welding openings from 232 employers. 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 Chicago at $36/hr, Skokie at $33/hr, and Peoria at $31/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.

Similar openings near Homer Glen, IL

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