Job Description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • Perform routine duties of preventative maintenance on production equipment.
  • Troubleshoot and repair plant production equipment.
  • Assist other maintenance personnel as needed.
  • Monitor equipment performance and minimize unscheduled downtime.
  • Promote and maintain a safe and clean work environment.
  • Work from prints, sketches, instructions, manuals, and schematics.
  • Assist with machine set-ups for production.
  • Fabricate, develop, assemble, and install equipment.
  • Perform routine safety checks on production equipment.
  • Report equipment problems and lockout/tagout situations to the Supervisor.
  • Account for tasks and parts usages in MP2.
  • Perform general housekeeping of the maintenance shop and job site.
  • Provide suggestions for improving departmental processes.

Requirements

  • Good oral and written communication skills.
  • Successfully pass mechanical aptitude exams.
  • Complete required lift truck operation tests and obtain necessary licensing.
  • Attention to detail and ability to follow instructions.
  • Ability to perform repetitive tasks consistently.
  • Maintain acceptable attendance and availability for overtime.
  • Fulfill all essential job functions in a safe manner.
  • Abide by all safety policies and procedures.
  • Meet all Mechanic I qualifications.
  • Prior mechanical and manufacturing experience of at least five years.
  • Sufficient keyboard and PC literacy to complete work orders in MP2.

Additional Information

  • This is a second shift position from 2PM-10PM Monday-Friday.
  • The hiring range for this position in Itasca is $25-32 per hour with a $0.60 shift differential.

How this job compares in Itasca, IL

Pay in context

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.

The local market in Itasca, IL

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.

Similar openings near Itasca, IL

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.