Job Description

Overview

Cadrex is searching for a Maintenance Technician III to perform highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production machinery, facility equipment, and physical structures according to safety and preventive maintenance systems and processes.

Responsibilities

  • Perform highly diversified duties in maintaining production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
  • Develop work instructions for production and facility’s equipment helping to build a preventive maintenance system.
  • Use a variety of hand and power tools and electric multimeters.
  • Perform mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic troubleshooting and repair of equipment, machines, and facilities.
  • Coordinate services from outside vendors and contractors.
  • Responsible for purchasing parts and maintaining inventory.
  • Assist in the ongoing training of maintenance staff and operators for scheduled and regular maintenance.
  • Schedule maintenance for both preventative and unscheduled jobs and prioritize work according to company and manager needs.
  • Work closely with management to determine equipment needs and expected issues that may be predictable in nature.
  • Visually inspect and listen to machines and equipment to locate causes of malfunctions.
  • Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test, and adjust.
  • Detect faulty operations, defective materials or/or equipment and report as required.
  • Inspect and measure parts to detect wear, misalignment, or other problems.
  • Provide emergency service and unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and perform scheduled maintenance repairs to production equipment during machine service.
  • Patch or replace plaster/plaster board and paint walls, ceilings, and trim of buildings.
  • May be required to use personal vehicle at times for work assignments.

Requirements

  • 5+ years’ experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate a variety of hand tools.
  • Ability to understand mechanical processes.
  • Possess electronics knowledge.
  • Possess a basic knowledge of hydraulics.
  • Previous experience in a machine shop performing maintenance mechanic duties preferred.
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance and/or repair instructions and manuals, and procedure manuals.
  • Demonstrated ability to read electrical schematics.
  • Associate/Technical degree in related field preferred.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Onsite
  • M-F; 3:30pm - 12:00am
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and vibration.
  • The employee is occasionally exposed to the risk of electrical shock.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, and talk or hear.
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Bloomingdale, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 21% above the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $28–$40/hr middle band drawn from 232 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 74% 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 Bloomingdale, IL

Bloomingdale, IL currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 329 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 Bloomingdale, or widen the search to Illinois.

Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions 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 (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 Chicago at $37/hr, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Franklin Park at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Bloomingdale, IL

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