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Overview

IGE Fans has been a leader in high-temperature fan and sealed motor innovation since 1924 and remains family owned. The company is experiencing significant growth and seeks a MIG and Stick welder to join their team.

Responsibilities

  • Weld with mild steel, stainless, and various high-grade alloys.
  • Layout workpieces per mechanical drawings.
  • Read mechanical assembly drawings.
  • Set up own welding machine.
  • Use hand and power tools common to welders.
  • Process completed work using the company's ERP system on a tablet.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience welding similar materials.
  • Experience with steel fabrication and welding (Stick & MIG, stainless steel welding).
  • Ability to read blueprints or mechanical drawings to set up and weld parts.
  • Ability to use electric hoist to raise and lower parts to worktable.
  • Ability to use hand plasma cutter.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Welding certification a plus but not required.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Fully site-based at IGE's manufacturing facility & headquarters in Westmont, IL.
  • The facility is a 3-minute walk from the Westmont BNSF Metra train station.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Westmont, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 254 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 48% 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 Westmont, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Westmont, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 354 other active welding openings from 213 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), Gerber Collision & Glass (12), 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, Itasca at $36/hr, and Addison at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and Stick work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.

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