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Overview

The Maintenance Technician position at Vantage involves providing repair and maintenance support in mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation areas at the Chicago Oleo Plant. The role requires performing preventive maintenance and troubleshooting equipment issues while ensuring compliance with safety regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Provide emergency and unscheduled repairs of plant-wide equipment during production.
  • Perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
  • Conduct mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, pneumatic, and hydraulic troubleshooting and repair.
  • Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders for maintenance tasks.
  • Comply with OSHA safety and health rules.
  • Repair and maintain mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment as directed.
  • Perform routine preventative maintenance on various equipment.
  • Use hand and power tools for routine equipment maintenance.
  • Operate powered man lifts and scissor lifts for safe access to equipment.
  • Transport and lift equipment using forklifts and other specialist equipment.
  • Certify plant instruments following established ISO guidelines.
  • Troubleshoot mechanical and electrical/instrumentation problems and carry out repairs.
  • Install new equipment as required.
  • Maintain and upgrade plant facilities as needed.
  • Complete record keeping documentation including work orders and safety permits.
  • Responsible for food safety related to designated area.
  • Report any food safety and quality related issues to management immediately.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or G.E.D required.
  • City of Chicago Electricians license.
  • Trade School Certificate.
  • 3-5 years of applicable maintenance experience in a manufacturing process plant environment, preferably Chemical or Petro Chemical.
  • Ability to pass third party trade tests as required.

Benefits

  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Accident insurance
  • Hospital indemnity insurance
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Short-term disability
  • Long-term disability
  • EAP
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Work indoors 85% of the time and outdoors 15% of the time.
  • General lifting up to 50 lbs maximum.

Benefits

Life and AD&D insurance
Accident insurance
Hospital indemnity insurance
Critical illness insurance
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
EAP
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 15% above the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL — toward the top of a $34–$50/hr middle band drawn from 76 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 64% 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.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 99 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 55 different employers. 45 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 354 other active welding openings from 214 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.

Vantage Specialty Chemicals currently has 2 other openings 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 (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. Chicago is among them.

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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 Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.