Job Description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • Perform advanced troubleshooting on packaging lines and execute preventative maintenance.
  • Assemble and install new equipment and packaging lines.
  • Assist with packaging line setups as needed.
  • Provide maintenance support during product trials.
  • Assist with and train operators on autonomous maintenance procedures.
  • Manage parts and inventory for timely maintenance and repair operations.
  • Comply with requirements regarding logged work in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
  • Resolve work requests that come in via radio calls.
  • Escalate issues using the help chain and participate in DMS 1 communications.
  • Train Maintenance Technician I associates on maintaining primary packaging equipment.
  • Rebuild and fabricate parts.
  • Maintain 5S standards and a clean and safe work area.
  • Enforce company rules regarding safety, discipline, cooperation, and teamwork.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of industrial maintenance experience required.
  • Experience in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) preferred.
  • Experience in food environment preferred.
  • High school diploma or GED required.
  • Ability to perform technical skills including mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic troubleshooting and repair.
  • Can read and interpret equipment manuals to perform required maintenance.
  • Welding, fabrication, and machining skills preferred.
  • Electrical troubleshooting experience preferred.
  • Required to supply own tools.
  • Average math skills.
  • Ability to use a handheld tablet.
  • Ability to learn the CMMS used at CW (ManagerPlus).
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

Additional Information

  • Office setting and warehouse environment with temperature range of 55 – 80 degrees.
  • This position may require working weekends or shifts other than their own.
  • Working shifts between 8 and 12 hours.
  • Capable of complying with all safety requirements including Bump Cap/Hard Hat, Safety Eyewear, Hearing Protection, and Safety Boots.
  • Able to work in a facility where milk, eggs, peanuts, soy, and/or wheat allergens are processed.

How this job compares in Elk Grove Village, IL

Pay in context

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.

The local market in Elk Grove Village, IL

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.

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