Maintenance Mechanic - Overnight Shift
Location
Bellwood, IL
Wage
$38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 4, 2026
Location
Bellwood, IL
Wage
$38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 4, 2026
The Maintenance Mechanic position at Ferrara involves conducting repairs and preventative maintenance on manufacturing equipment during overnight shifts. This role is crucial for ensuring the continuous operation of mechanical and electrical systems.
At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 27% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $25–$38/hr middle band drawn from 276 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 75% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Bellwood, 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 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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic - Overnight Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.