Maintenance Tradesperson II, 3rd shift
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$31 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 14, 2026
Location
Downers Grove, IL
Wage
$31 – $38/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 14, 2026
Regal Rexnord Corporation is a leading manufacturer of automation solutions and mechanical power transmission products. The Maintenance Tradesperson II position is responsible for maintaining all machinery, equipment, and facilities at the Rexnord Downers Grove location, requiring an experienced Electrical and Mechanical maintenance technician.
At roughly $35/hr, this posting sits about 11% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$40/hr middle band drawn from 276 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 61% 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 8 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 8 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 368 other active welding openings from 211 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 (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. Downers Grove is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Tradesperson II, 3rd shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.