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Overview

The Maintenance Engineer A position involves performing journey-level work in building maintenance, focusing on operating, maintaining, and repairing various building infrastructure systems. The role supports the department's mission by promoting inclusiveness, respect, and accountability while ensuring safe work practices.

Responsibilities

  • Operates, maintains, diagnoses, repairs and replaces heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning equipment.
  • Estimates time, materials, and equipment required for assigned jobs and maintains records of work performed.
  • Mentors and provides technical guidance to coworkers.
  • Responds to irregularities during evenings and weekends to ensure 24/7 coverage.

Requirements

  • High School diploma, GED or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Completion of an accredited plumbing or HVAC service technician apprenticeship program.
  • Five years field experience working at journeyman level.
  • Working knowledge of applicable codes and regulations including OSHA and local plumbing codes.
  • Must be a member of Operating Engineers Local 399 or join after 90-day probation.
  • Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license recognized by the State of Illinois.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 3rd Shift, Sunday – Thursday, 11p-7a

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $56/hr, this posting sits about 50% above the $37/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL — toward the top of a $31–$45/hr middle band drawn from 71 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 85% 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 Chicago, IL

We're tracking 101 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 51 different employers. 35 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 348 other active welding openings from 204 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.

Northwestern University 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 (16), S&C Electric Company (12), and Venteon (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 Downers Grove at $46/hr, Chicago at $37/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. Chicago is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Engineer A (3rd Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.