Job Description
A metal manufacturing organization in the northwest suburbs is seeking a hands-on Maintenance Lead / Shop Floater to support machine reliability and daily shop-floor operations. This role is ideal for someone with strong machine maintenance experience who can also step in across manufacturing functions as production needs change.
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Location: Elgin IL 60123
Schedule: 1st Shift, Monday through Friday, 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Pay: $28 to $32 per hour, based on experience
Responsibilities:
- Inspect machinery and equipment to ensure safe, reliable operation
- Perform preventive maintenance inspections (PMIs) according to established schedules
- Troubleshoot and repair production machinery and shop equipment
- Support maintenance activities that minimize downtime and keep operations moving
- Fill in across a variety of shop-floor positions as needed
- Follow workplace safety procedures and maintain a clean, organized work area
- Read and interpret shop drawings and use basic math for maintenance and production tasks
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; coursework or training in machine shop, wood shop, or metal shop preferred
- At least five years of experience in a metal fabrication, welding, tool and die, or similar manufacturing environment
- Hands-on machine repair and maintenance experience, including PMIs
- Strong mechanical aptitude, communication skills, and basic math ability
- Ability to read shop drawings
- Trade school training or a two-year technical degree is a plus
- Prior lead or supervisory experience and bilingual Spanish/English skills are preferred
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, handle materials, and work around machinery throughout the shift
- Ability to lift up to
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work in a manufacturing environment with noise, vibration, temperature changes, and other typical shop conditions
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Elgin, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $28–$32 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
- Machiningunmatched
- Maintenance Servicesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Mathematicsunmatched
- Metal Manufacturingunmatched
- Multilingualunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Physical Demandsunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Production Machiningunmatched
- Project Management Information System (PMIS)unmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Schedule Developmentunmatched
- Spanish Languageunmatched
- Tool and Die Manufacturingunmatched
- Weldingunmatched
- Woodworkingunmatched
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