Job Description

Overview

At MasTec Communications Group, we build for the future. As a Tower Foreman (Structural Modification Welder), you will develop new skills, work in a safety-minded environment, and help us provide the highest level of quality service to our customers and communities while maintaining our commitment to safety.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the daily site construction work efforts to ensure the crew meets production goals.
  • Understand and implement Health, Safety, and Environmental Policies.
  • Ensure safety requirements at your sites and with your crew.
  • Oversee the daily operations and quality of work performed at assigned sites.
  • Maintain daily paperwork required for the site and the crew.
  • Implement and follow through with job instructions provided by leadership.
  • Compile all site-specific closeout documentation for your work effort.
  • Upload closeout documentation to customer interfaces.
  • Coordinate with the customer representative for site-related activities.
  • Provide leadership, guidance, and actively train/promote learning to all crew members.
  • Maintain equipment and vehicles in an operational condition.
  • Validate daily timesheets for Management.
  • Serve as a mentor to new, less experienced technicians.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Safety is a part of your day-to-day.
  • Track record of completing work with a high level of quality.
  • Enjoy a hands-on approach to your work.
  • Looking for long-term projects.
  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
  • Demonstrate expertise in construction skills, rigging, safety, and general industry knowledge.
  • Working knowledge of safety standards and regulations.
  • WSA certification is a plus.
  • Possess job-related certifications like First Aid, Safety, Rescue, and others.
  • Organizational, computer, and communication skills.
  • Ability to read and interpret site plans, RFDS, construction drawings, and SOW.
  • Valid driver’s license and driving record meeting company policy conditions.
  • Ability to maintain FDOT log books (Training will be provided).
  • Ability to lead, teach, and train proper work and safety procedures.
  • Recognize and provide a safe work site with acceptable quality and efficiency.
  • Ability to provide, record, and manage paperwork (Excel, Word, etc.).
  • Fit and in good physical condition.
  • Ability to travel 100% of the time, climb towers up to 300 ft, pick up 50 lbs., and work up to 12 hours.
  • Experience in industrial welding in the Telecom Tower industry.
  • Structural modification experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, where the middle half runs $30–$50/hr across 65 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 31% 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.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 95 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 54 different employers. 34 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 342 other active welding openings from 206 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.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gerber Collision & Glass (16), S&C Electric Company (10), and Crash Champions (9). 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 $38/hr, Downers Grove at $36/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. Chicago is among them.

Similar openings near Chicago, IL

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