Metal Stamping Toolroom Machinist (Progressive Tooling)
Location
Wood Dale, IL
Posted on October 27, 2026
Location
Wood Dale, IL
Posted on October 27, 2026
The Metal Stamping Toolroom Machinist position involves building, repairing, and maintaining progressive stamping dies, fixtures, and precision tooling for continuous-run punch press operations in Wood Dale, IL. The role requires collaboration with the Tool Room Manager and focuses on improving die functionality and troubleshooting production issues.
This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Illinois currently run a median of $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $27–$43/hr across 252 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.
Wood Dale, IL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 342 other active welding openings from 206 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 (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. 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. Metal Stamping Toolroom Machinist (Progressive Tooling) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.