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Job Description

Overview

Our client is currently seeking a Tool & Die Maker for a growing industrial manufacturing company located in the Chicago area. The successful candidate will construct and repair precision tools, dies, and fixtures, ensuring the production of high-quality components.

Responsibilities

  • Construct and repair precision tools, dies, and fixtures.
  • Assemble various parts to form completed tools or dies accurately and securely.
  • Operate machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, or grinders to fabricate parts.
  • Perform testing and inspection of finished products using precision measuring instruments.
  • Conduct regular inspections of tools and dies in use and perform necessary maintenance and repairs.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of tool and die manufacturing experience.
  • Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder.
  • No degree required.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental

Additional Information

  • This is a fully on-site position.
  • Work schedule is first shift from 6am-2:30pm.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
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How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $39/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, whose middle half runs $34–$50/hr across 76 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 45% 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 Chicago, IL

We're tracking 99 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 54 different employers. 36 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 354 other active welding openings from 213 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.

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 $39/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Addison at $35/hr. Chicago is among them.

Similar openings near Chicago, IL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Tool & Die Maker (1153511) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.