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Maintenance Tech I - 1st Shift

Cadrex

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Compensation
$26–31/hr
Location
Romeoville, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Cadrex is seeking a Maintenance Technician I to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production machinery, facility equipment, and physical structures. The role includes scheduled and emergency equipment repairs, preventive maintenance, and general facility upkeep. It is onsite in Romeoville, Illinois, with a Monday–Friday schedule. The posting lists a preferred machine-shop maintenance background and offers hourly pay of $26.00–$31.00.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Hand Tool Operation, nice to haveMechanical Processes, nice to haveElectronics, nice to haveHydraulics, nice to haveArithmetic, nice to haveDocument Interpretation, nice to haveElectrical Schematics, nice to have

Qualifications

Machine Shop Maintenance Experience, nice to haveHigh School Diploma, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Maintenance Tech I - 1st Shift

Romeoville, IL (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=275+Innovation+Dr+Romeoville+IL+USA+60446)

Description

OVERVIEW

Cadrex is searching for a Maintenance Technician I 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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Installs new production machinery and equipment

  • Visually inspects and listens to machines and equipment to locate causes of malfunctions

  • Diagnoses problems, replaces or repairs parts, tests, and adjusts

  • Detects faulty operations, defective materials or/or equipment and reports as required

  • Dismantles machines and equipment to gain access to problem area

  • Inspects and measures parts to detect wear, misalignment, or other problems

  • Provides emergency service and unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs to production equipment during machine service

  • Starts machines and equipment to test operation following repair

  • Repairs broken parts, replaces defective parts and motors, belts, and adjusts feed mechanisms

  • Connects wire to motors, fixtures, and other electrical equipment, replaces switches and fuses, and splices wire and insulates wire with friction tape

  • Performs regular preventative maintenance on machines and equipment

  • Patches or replaces plaster/plaster board and paints walls, ceilings, and trim of buildings

  • Clears clogged drains and replaces plumbing fixtures

  • Cleans work areas, tools, and equipment

  • Removes dirt, dust, grease, and waste material from machines

  • Cleans and lubricates machine parts

  • Performs routine housekeeping in and around buildings as required

  • May be required to use personal vehicle at times for work assignments

  • May be required to purchase own tools for use on the job

Requirements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Demonstrated ability to operate a variety of hand tools, ability to understand mechanical processes, possess electronics knowledge, and 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, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

  • 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

EDUCATION

  • Highschool Diploma

LOCATION

  • Onsite

SCHEDULE

  • M-F

TOTAL COMPENSATION INCLUDES

  • Health/dental/vision coverage

  • Employer-paid and supplemental life insurance

  • Short- and long-term disability insurance

  • Generous paid time off and holiday pay

  • Monthly remote work stipend (for remote employees who qualify)

  • 401(k) investment plan, with an employer match of up to 4%

  • Education support program

  • Safety eyeglasses/shoe reimbursement

  • Referral bonuses

  • Bonus plan for all full-time employees

WORK ENVIRONMENT

  • 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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

  • 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 is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

CADREX’S CORE VALUES

  • Safety first, rising to the challenge, collaboration, accountability, and doing the right thing

ABOUT US

CADREX Manufacturing Solutions is a leading provider of complex sheet metal and machined production parts, assemblies, and weldments for a variety of end markets, including electrical transmission and distribution, warehouse automation, technology, aerospace & defense, medical, food, and industrials. With locations in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Washington, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Monterrey Mexico, CADREX offers numerous in-house manufacturing capabilities, including laser cutting, sheet metal fabrication, complex assembly, CNC punching, CNC machining, forming, robotic welding, stamping, fastener insertion, and tool and die manufacturing, to effectively serve customers with lights-out manufacturing capabilities for mid- to high-volume production. For more information, visit www.cadrex.com.

Cadrex provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Salary Description

$26.00-$31.00 per hour

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How this job compares

Set against the 6,718 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$26–31/hr
  • Illinois median$26–32/hr139 hourly ranges
  • US median$27–34/hr3,086 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $28.50/hr, is 3% below the Illinois median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the middle half of Maintenance Technician hourly ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 200 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Illinois and 6,718 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (3,819 postings).
Education
22 of the 6,718 open Maintenance Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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