Dock and Door Service Tech
Location
La Grange, IL
Wage
$23 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
Location
La Grange, IL
Wage
$23 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 9, 2026
Crown Equipment Corporation is one of the world's largest lift truck manufacturers, providing local support globally. The Dock and Door Service Tech role involves troubleshooting and servicing dock and door equipment.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 18% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 277 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in La Grange, 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 368 other active welding openings from 212 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
Crown Equipment Corporation currently has 1 other opening 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 (18), Staff on Site (13), and Sargent & Lundy (11). 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 Downers Grove at $44/hr, Chicago at $38/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/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. Dock and Door Service Tech figures were last recalculated when this page was built.