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Job Description

Overview

Prime Healthcare is a rapidly growing hospital system dedicated to saving and transforming hospitals while delivering exceptional care. They employ nearly 50,000 staff and operate 51 acute care hospitals across multiple states.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain accurate logs on all equipment in the hospital.
  • Provide a safe working environment.
  • Maintain and repair equipment including mechanical, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, plant maintenance, and medical gas systems.
  • Drive as needed for company business.

Requirements

  • Able to troubleshoot, read schematics, and/or blueprints.
  • Valid state driver's license.
  • Minimum 2 years' experience with mechanical, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, plant maintenance, and medical gas systems.
  • High school diploma or equivalent required.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This opportunity is currently hiring for days, nights, and variable shifts.
  • Shift preference is taken into consideration by the hiring team.

Benefits

PTO
401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Des Plaines, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $27–$43/hr across 251 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 29% 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 Des Plaines, IL

Des Plaines, 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 207 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.

Prime Healthcare 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 (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.

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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 Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.