Plant Maintenance - Addison
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$30.47 – $42.18/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$30.47 – $42.18/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Prairie Materials, part of Votorantim Cimentos North America (VCNA), is seeking a Plant Maintenance worker to install, maintain, and repair machinery and equipment in industrial settings. The company is dedicated to building materials and sustainability solutions, contributing positively to communities across North America.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$40/hr middle band drawn from 239 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 62% 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.
Addison, IL currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 327 other active welding openings from 197 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Addison, 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 (17), S&C Electric Company (11), and Venteon (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. Plant Maintenance - Addison figures were last recalculated when this page was built.