Maintenance Mechanic- 3rd Shift
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$30 – $37.49/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$30 – $37.49/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
The Maintenance Mechanic will perform preventative maintenance and emergency repairs on production machinery to enhance equipment reliability and glove quality as part of the maintenance team.
At roughly $34/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, whose middle half runs $28–$47/hr across 77 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.
We're tracking 94 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 51 different employers. 18 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 361 other active welding openings from 225 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, 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 (13), 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. Chicago 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. Maintenance Mechanic- 3rd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.