Mobile Technician
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$21.62 – $24.89/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$21.62 – $24.89/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 11, 2026
As a Mobile Technician II at J.B. Hunt, you will be responsible for performing intermediate service and repair of tractors, trailers, chassis, containers, or power equipment at customer sites or rail yards using a mobile service truck. This role requires technical skills and the ability to work outdoors under routine supervision.
At roughly $23/hr, this posting comes in about 35% below the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, where the middle half runs $29–$47/hr across 77 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
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. Mobile Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.