Lead Maintenance Technician (2nd Shift)
Location
Northbrook, IL
Wage
$27.76 – $47.19/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 14, 2026
Location
Northbrook, IL
Wage
$27.76 – $47.19/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 14, 2026
Diasorin is a global leader in diagnostic solutions, dedicated to improving healthcare worldwide through innovative diagnostic assays and instruments. The Lead Maintenance Technician is responsible for leading maintenance activities to ensure the functionality of production equipment in a medical device manufacturing environment.
At roughly $37/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $38/hr median for lead welder jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $31–$46/hr across 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 50% 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.
Northbrook, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 368 other active welding openings from 211 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
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. Lead Maintenance Technician (2nd Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.