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Job Description

Overview

The Container Shop Technician performs repairs, maintenance, and installation of compactors and other stationary equipment, focusing on hydraulics, basic electrical operations, and welding fabrication to ensure safe and productive operations. Republic Services, a leader in the environmental services industry, is dedicated to sustainability and exceeding customer expectations.

Responsibilities

  • Performs inspections, diagnostic tests, preventative maintenance, and repairs on compactors and stationary equipment.
  • Reads electrical schematics and diagnoses electrical problems using single and three phase AC voltage.
  • Reads hydraulic schematics and diagnoses hydraulic issues on equipment.
  • Maintains knowledge of proper installation of compactors and assists with installations as scheduled.
  • Performs welding and fabrication work as needed.
  • Ensures efficiencies to handle all scheduled jobs in a given day.
  • Completes paperwork and enters data associated with repairs in a timely manner.
  • Follows all safety policies and procedures.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Equipment maintenance and repair experience.
  • Welding and/or fabrication skills and/or experience.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Shift: 6 am- 2:30 pm
  • Hourly Rate: $41.20

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $41/hr, this posting sits about 33% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$41/hr middle band drawn from 261 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 76% 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 Melrose Park, IL

Melrose Park, IL currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 352 other active welding openings from 206 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Melrose Park, or widen the search to Illinois.

Republic Services currently has 3 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 Gerber Collision & Glass (17), Staff on Site (13), and S&C Electric Company (10). 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, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Franklin Park at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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