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Overview

The Maintenance Mechanic III is responsible for maintaining the organization's production equipment and performing electrical and mechanical troubleshooting and repairs. The role requires expertise in repairing and maintaining various machinery and mechanical equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain organization's production equipment.
  • Perform electrical and/or mechanical troubleshooting and repairs in response to equipment errors or failures.
  • Repair and maintain machinery and mechanical equipment according to diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and manufacturer's specifications.
  • Use hand tools, power tools, and precision measuring and testing instruments for repairs.
  • Repair or reproduce parts using welders or machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, and drill presses.

Requirements

  • Must have Bindery and Press experience.
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How this job compares in Saint Charles, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $26–$38/hr across 182 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 26% 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.

The local market in Saint Charles, IL

Saint Charles, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 241 other active welding openings from 152 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

RR Donnelley 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), Gerber Collision & Glass (10), and S&C Electric Company (9). 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 $38/hr, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Skokie at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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 III - KR figures were last recalculated when this page was built.