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Klein Tools

Maintenance Technician - 2nd Shift - $5k SIGN ON BONUS

Location

Elk Grove Village, IL

Wage

$35 – $45/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

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Posted on November 5, 2026

Job Description

Overview

At Klein Tools, curiosity powers discovery, ownership inspires excellence, and urgency means we run towards opportunities. We deliver quality and innovation in everything we do, designing and launching hundreds of groundbreaking products each year.

Responsibilities

  • Repairs and maintains machine tools and industrial machines using knowledge of mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and machining procedures.
  • Diagnoses machine malfunctions and determines the need for adjustment or repair.
  • Dismantles machines or equipment to examine parts for defects or to remove defective parts.
  • Replaces defective parts with new or repaired parts.
  • Assembles and test-operates machines to verify correction of malfunctions.
  • Maintains and lubricates machine tools and equipment.
  • Assembles and welds auxiliary pieces of equipment as required.
  • Burns to remove various components of machines as required.
  • Inspects and measures finished parts to maintain statistical process control charts and verify machine repairs.
  • Communicates with co-workers and supervisors to receive instructions and coordinate activities.
  • Maintains a clean work environment.
  • Conducts PM's as assigned.

Requirements

  • Two to four years of trade school and/or work experience or apprenticeship.
  • Ability to use and interpret complicated blueprints and advanced shop mathematics.
  • Ability to analyze, plan, and perform a sequence of operations where standard methods are available.
  • Must exercise sound judgment in making decisions related to machine repairs.
  • Employee is required to supply own tools.
  • Must be able to work well with others.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Education and Professional Development Assistance

Benefits

PTO
401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Education and Professional Development Assistance
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How this job compares in Elk Grove Village, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 18% above the $34/hr median for welding jobs in Elk Grove Village, IL — toward the top of a $33–$40/hr middle band drawn from 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 57% 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.

The local market in Elk Grove Village, IL

We're tracking 15 other active welding openings in Elk Grove Village, IL right now, from 12 different employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 331 other active welding openings from 199 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.

Klein Tools currently has 4 other openings 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 (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 Addison at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Elk Grove Village, IL

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 - 2nd Shift - $5k SIGN ON BONUS figures were last recalculated when this page was built.