Equipment Maintenance Mechanic II - 2nd Shift
Location
Itasca, IL
Wage
$25 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 13, 2026
Location
Itasca, IL
Wage
$25 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 13, 2026
The Equipment Maintenance Mechanic II - 2nd Shift position at Fellowes involves performing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairing plant production equipment while promoting a safe work environment. Fellowes Brands has been recognized as one of America’s Best Midsize Employers and a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune.
At roughly $29/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $26–$38/hr across 270 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 39% 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.
Itasca, IL currently has 7 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 374 other active welding openings from 233 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Itasca, or widen the search to Illinois.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (15), 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, Itasca at $36/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. Itasca is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Equipment Maintenance Mechanic II - 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.