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Overview

Join KIK Consumer Products as a Mechanical Maintenance Specialist in Bottling & Processing, where you'll troubleshoot and maintain machinery in a fast-paced production environment, contributing to the safety and cleanliness of homes and pools across North America.

Responsibilities

  • Modify, repair, install, maintain, improve, and troubleshoot machinery and facility systems.
  • Diagnose mechanical faults and fix them using fitting, plumbing, metal fabrication, machining, and basic welding skills.
  • Operate mills, lathes, drill presses, grinders, and saws to fabricate and repair parts.
  • Execute PMs and safety inspections, capturing findings and work orders in the CMMS.
  • Handle equipment set-ups, tear-downs, relocations, and changeovers for new products and sizes.
  • Troubleshoot motors, sensors, photo-eyes, relays, VFDs, and 120–480 VAC circuits.
  • Respond rapidly to breakdowns and communicate status and parts needs.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • 3+ years of mechanical maintenance experience in high-speed packaging, bottling, or similar manufacturing.
  • 2+ years diagnosing mechanical and electrical issues.
  • 2+ years of basic welding experience (strongly preferred).
  • Strength with hydraulics, pneumatics, welding/fabrication basics, and reading manuals, blueprints, and simple schematics.
  • Maintenance-level understanding of industrial electrical systems and safe work around 120–480 VAC.
  • CMMS proficiency for work orders, parts, and PMs (preferred).
  • Ability to work in temperature-controlled and non-temperature-controlled, high-noise environments.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Comfortable on 2nd Shift (3:30 pm – 12:00 am, weekends as business needs).
  • Must pass pre-employment drug screen and background check.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401k
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How this job compares in Riverdale, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 249 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 54% 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 Riverdale, IL

Riverdale, 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 348 other active welding openings from 210 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

KIK Consumer Products 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, Addison at $35/hr, and Skokie at $35/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. Mechanical Maintenance Specialist, Bottling & Processing figures were last recalculated when this page was built.