Maintenance Technician II - 3rd Shift
Location
Elk Grove Village, IL
Wage
$30 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Elk Grove Village, IL
Wage
$30 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
The Maintenance Technician II is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and setting up production machinery and mechanical equipment, focusing on safety and quality standards. This full-time position requires self-motivation and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
At roughly $33/hr, this posting comes in about 19% below the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Elk Grove Village, IL, where the middle half runs $34–$40/hr across 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 14% 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.
We're tracking 15 other active welding openings in Elk Grove Village, IL right now, from 11 different employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 327 other active welding openings from 197 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Elk Grove Village, 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 Elk Grove Village at $40/hr, Chicago at $38/hr, and Downers Grove at $36/hr. Elk Grove Village is among them.
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 II - 3rd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.