Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

Reworld is a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing innovative solutions for carbon-negative outcomes. As a Maintenance Mechanic, you will be responsible for the maintenance tasks required to ensure the operational effectiveness of equipment and systems.

Responsibilities

  • Complete preventive maintenance tasks to prevent equipment breakdowns.
  • Utilize root-cause analysis to investigate breakdowns and line stoppages.
  • Prioritize work for timely maintenance, repair, and installation of equipment.
  • Repair and maintain industrial production machinery and equipment.
  • Diagnose malfunctions by observing and evaluating machinery operation.
  • Review maintenance reports to plan and modify maintenance activities.
  • Inspect machines for conformance with operational and safety standards.
  • Order supplies and parts as needed.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent required.
  • Valid Driver’s License required.
  • 2-4 years of experience in a heavy industrial/manufacturing environment.
  • Experience in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
  • Ability to travel approximately 15% of the time.
  • Demonstrate safety conscious behaviors.
  • Ability to operate small hand tools, power tools, and heavy equipment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Ability to lift/carry 50lbs.
  • Ability to work from heights and in confined spaces.
  • Qualify to wear a full-face respirator.
  • Work in various weather conditions.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Hodgkins, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 19% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $28–$40/hr across 241 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 22% 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 Hodgkins, IL

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Hodgkins, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 338 other active welding openings from 201 employers. Browse welding jobs across 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.

Similar openings near Hodgkins, 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 Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.