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Overview

Willcox Matthews is recruiting experienced Maintenance Technicians for a well-established plastics manufacturing company in Franklin Park, IL. This position offers an excellent opportunity to work with extrusion, thermoforming, and automated production equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and repair electrical and mechanical equipment.
  • Diagnose electrical faults on 12V–480V and 3-phase systems.
  • Perform preventive and reactive maintenance on production machinery.
  • Troubleshoot PLCs, HMIs, motors, VFDs and servo drives.
  • Maintain hydraulic, pneumatic and vacuum systems.
  • Repair extrusion, thermoforming and automated manufacturing equipment.
  • Identify root causes of breakdowns and minimize downtime.
  • Maintain chillers, compressors, pumps and auxiliary equipment.
  • Support equipment installations and continuous improvement projects.
  • Follow Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and workplace safety procedures.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industrial maintenance experience in manufacturing.
  • Strong electrical and mechanical troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience with 480V 3-phase electrical systems.
  • Knowledge of motors, drives, hydraulics, pneumatics and gearboxes.
  • Ability to read electrical schematics and technical drawings.
  • Experience maintaining automated production equipment.
  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Flexibility to work overtime or weekends when required.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • 1st, 2nd & 3rd Shift Opportunities
  • Full-Time, Permanent Employment
  • Opportunities to develop technical skills

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $28–$40/hr middle band drawn from 241 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% 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 Franklin Park, IL

Franklin Park, IL currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 2 of them were 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 Franklin Park, 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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