Sr. Engineer Mechanical
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$148,000 – $211,827/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 2, 2026
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$148,000 – $211,827/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 2, 2026
This is a great opportunity to get involved with exciting and challenging EPC and Engineering Services Projects within various industries for career development and growth.
At roughly $86/hr, this posting sits about 179% 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 100% 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.
Downers Grove, IL currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 352 other active welding openings from 205 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Downers Grove, or widen the search to Illinois.
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.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Sr. Engineer Mechanical figures were last recalculated when this page was built.