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Overview

Kitagawa-NorthTech, Inc. is a well-respected manufacturing organization located in Schaumburg, Illinois, with over 50 years of experience in workholding products. The Service & Repair Technician will play a key role in the inspection, troubleshooting, repair, and documentation of CNC workholding products and related equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, repair, and rebuild chucks, hydraulic cylinders, workholding assemblies, and related components.
  • Use precision measuring tools such as dial indicators, micrometers, and calipers.
  • Operate hydraulic test equipment to verify runout, alignment, dimensions, and functional performance.
  • Diagnose mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and basic electrical problems.
  • Determine root cause, document findings and test results, and verify completed repairs.
  • Perform machine maintenance and collaborate with Engineering, Production, and Quality to resolve technical issues.
  • Occasionally travel to customer facilities for installation, troubleshooting, service, and training.

Requirements

  • Strong mechanical aptitude and hands-on troubleshooting ability.
  • At least three years of hands-on technical experience with CNC equipment, workholding, industrial maintenance, hydraulic or machine repair, precision assembly, or similar mechanical systems.
  • Ability to read mechanical drawings, manuals, schematics, and work instructions.
  • Accurate documentation, organizational, communication, and customer-service skills.
  • Willingness to perform occasional customer-site and overnight travel when required.

Benefits

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

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $28–$40/hr across 241 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 43% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Schaumburg, IL

Schaumburg, IL currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 338 other active welding openings from 201 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Schaumburg, 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 (14), S&C Electric Company (11), and Venteon (10). 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 Downers Grove at $46/hr, Chicago at $37/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. Service & Repair Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.