MAINTENANCE MECHANIC - 2ND SHIFT
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$30 – $42/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$30 – $42/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
Clyde’s Donuts is a family-owned food manufacturer known for high-quality donuts since 1920. The Maintenance Mechanic role involves performing mechanical and electrical maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs on various equipment.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 13% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$39/hr middle band drawn from 247 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Addison, IL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 333 other active welding openings from 207 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
Clyde's Donuts 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 Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (10), and Gerber Collision & Glass (10). 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 $37/hr, Elk Grove Village at $36/hr, and Bedford Park at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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 - 2ND SHIFT figures were last recalculated when this page was built.