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Overview

Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is a Fortune 500 company focused on providing ideas and solutions in the corrugated packaging and white paper business. The Maintenance Technician role at the Chicago Sheet plant involves performing maintenance tasks to ensure operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Perform maintenance tasks to diagnose, repair, rebuild, and replace mechanical, electrical, PLC, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems on all plant equipment.
  • Use maintenance knowledge to increase productivity, decrease downtime and waste.
  • Respond urgently to machine downtime events.
  • Complete in-house training programs to develop equipment-specific maintenance skills.
  • Follow all safety and company policies, including lock-out tag-out procedures.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience troubleshooting and repairing industrial manufacturing equipment.
  • Knowledge and experience with mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and PLC systems.
  • Passionate about maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
  • Ability to work overtime and weekends as needed.
  • Must have own basic tools.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Location: 5555 W 73rd St. Bedford Park, IL 60638.
  • 2nd Shift: 3:00PM - 11:00PM.
  • Maintenance Technicians are placed on shifts according to plant needs and seniority.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $37/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, whose middle half runs $31–$46/hr across 69 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 Chicago, IL

We're tracking 99 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 51 different employers. 27 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 338 other active welding openings from 201 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, 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. Chicago is among them.

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