Stationary Engineer
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Job Summary
Job Requisition ID:51376
Opening Date: 12/26/2025
Closing Date: 01/09/2026
Agency:Department of Human Services
Class Title:STATIONARY ENGINEER - 42600
Skill Option:None
Bilingual Option:None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $10257.30 - $10821.06 per month ($58.95 - $62.19 per hour)
Job Type: Salaried
Category:Full Time
County: Kane
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code:PR000
Merit Comp Code:
This position is a union position; therefore provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
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Why Work for Illinois
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Position Overview
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a Stationary Engineer for the Elgin Mental Health Center located in Elgin Illinois to receive day-to-day guidance and assignments from the Stationary Engineer Chief. Maintains and repairs various mechanical systems and auxiliary and powerhouse equipment for the Elgin Mental Health Center. Installs maintains and repairs the heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) operational systems. Makes rounds of buildings boiler and mechanical rooms at regular intervals. Makes and records tests of water used for consumption or for generating steam and hydraulic hot water and chilled water systems. Reports complaints and emergency calls to supervisor. Travels in performance of job duties.
Essential Functions
- Receives day-to-day guidance and assignments from the Stationary Engineer Chief and/or designee at the Elgin Mental Health Center.
- Makes rounds of buildings boiler and mechanical rooms at regular intervals.
- Makes and records tests of water used for consumption or for generating steam and hydraulic hot water and chilled water systems.
- Reports complaints and emergency calls to supervisor.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires knowledge skill and mental development equivalent to completion of eight (8) years elementary school.
- Requires four (4) years of experience in power plant operation and in firing high pressure and/or low-pressure stationary boilers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Four (4) years of specialized experience in the operation of high-pressure/low-pressure coal gas or oil-fired boilers and their apparatuses.
- Three (3) years of specialized experience in water treatment and various chemicals used in boiler systems.
- Three (3) years of specialized experience diagnosing problems in mechanical electrical heating and air conditioning/HVAC systems.
- Three (3) years of professional experience directing the work of employees and outside contractors engaged in the operation and maintenance of technical stationary engineering power plant building systems.
- Three (3) years of experience taking utility readings logging records ensuring maintenance schedules are followed reviewing and actioning maintenance reports for technical stationary engineering power plant building systems.
- Three (3) years of experience diagnosing building and mechanical issues recognizing potentially dangerous situations and implementing appropriate emergency responses.
- Three (3) years of specialized experience in public health Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and building codes of technical stationary engineering power plant building systems.
- Three (3) years of experience following and expressing complex ideas clearly both orally and in written form in the field of technical stationary engineering power plant building systems.
Conditions of Employment
- Requires possession of a valid certificate as a Universal Technician under U.S.E.P.A Section 608 Rules* or the ability to obtain such certificate within 6 months of employment.
*The possession of a valid certificate as a Universal Technician under U.S.E.P.A. Section 608 encompasses positions which perform refrigeration/air-conditioning work that has the possibility of release of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere.
- Requires Stationary engineer license certificate for the City of Chicago.
- Requires ability to work rotating shifts including weekends and holidays.
- Requires ability to utilize agency supplied equipment (i.e. cellphone blackberry pager etc.).
- Requires a valid drivers license.
- Requires proof of insurance.
- Requires the ability to perform various tasks such as lifting and moving equipment/machinery up to 50 pounds and 100 pounds with assistance.
- Requires the ability to utilize office equipment including personal computers.
- Requires the ability to travel.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
Work Hours:7:00am-3:00pm; Thursday-Monday; 30-minute paid lunch
Power House/Engineering
Headquarter Location:750 S State St Elgin Illinois 60123
Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery
Elgin Mental Health Center
Trades
Work County:Kane
Posting Group:Building Fleet & Institutional Support; Social Services
About the Agency:
The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois. Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy safe and enriched lives. Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois. Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion Accessibility Responsibility and Equity.
As a State of Illinois Employee you will receive a robust benefit package that includes the following:
- A Pension Program
- Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health Life Dental and Vision Insurance
- 3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
- 12 Paid Sick Days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
- 10-25 Days of Paid Vacation time annually - (10 days in year one of employment)
- Personal Sick & Vacation rates modified for 12-hour & part-time work schedules (as applicable)
- 13 Paid Holidays annually 14 on even numbered years
- Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
- 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Deferred Compensation Program - A supplemental retirement plan
- Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP) Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP)
- Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
- GI BillTraining/Apprenticeship Benefits eligibility for qualifying Veterans
- 5% Salary Differential for Bilingual Positions
- Commuter Savings Program (Chicago only)
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