Maintenance Technician II - 2nd Shift
Location
Forest View, IL
Wage
$28 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 28, 2026
Location
Forest View, IL
Wage
$28 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 28, 2026
We are seeking a hands-on, highly skilled and motivated Maintenance Technician II to work at our plant located in Forest View, IL, near Midway Airport. The Maintenance Technician is responsible for installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and performing preventive maintenance on manufacturing equipment, utilities, and facility systems within a chemical production environment.
At roughly $30/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 42% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Forest View, 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.
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 II - 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.