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TekPro Engineering

MIG/TIG Industrial Equipment Fabrication Welder

Location

Lakewood, IL

Wage

$23 – $28/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG Welding
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Posted on September 15, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Join a family-owned industrial equipment manufacturing company with over 65 years of experience as a MIG/TIG Fabrication Welder in Crystal Lake, IL. This role offers steady work, a first-shift schedule, and opportunities for long-term career growth.

Responsibilities

  • Lay down clean, consistent MIG welds on steel and apply TIG on stainless as needed.
  • Translate blueprints and weld symbols into precise, high-quality assemblies.
  • Fabricate and fit components for custom industrial equipment.
  • Verify dimensions and weld integrity to meet specifications and quality standards.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of MIG welding experience.
  • TIG welding exposure preferred.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and weld drawings.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and quality.
  • Background in fabrication or industrial manufacturing preferred.

Additional Information

  • Location: Crystal Lake, IL
  • Hours: 6:00 AM–2:30 PM (1st shift)
  • Pay: $23.00–$28.00/hr
  • Overtime: Voluntary, when available
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How this job compares in Lakewood, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $24/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $22–$29/hr across 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Lakewood, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Lakewood, 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 271 other active welding openings from 166 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

TekPro Engineering currently has 1 other opening live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (14), 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 $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. 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. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. MIG/TIG Industrial Equipment Fabrication Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.