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Alabama · week of October 19, 2026

Alabama plant jobs: 235 open roles at 90 manufacturers

Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in Alabama, what it pays, and what they ask for.

See all 235 Alabama roles →What Alabama plants ask for →

235
open plant roles
41
posted in the last 7 days

17% of all openings

90
manufacturers hiring

Blue Origin, Magna, Hubbell

$85k–$138k
typical engineering base

+1% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Manufacturing has the most openings in Alabama: 62 roles, ahead of reliability (53).

  2. 2

    Blue Origin is hiring the most, with 28 open plant roles, 7 of them new this week.

  3. 3

    45% of postings name Team leadership, and 38% name Root cause.

Explore by team

Openings and pay, team by team

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Open roles

openposted this week

Typical base pay (engineers and senior engineers)

Too few postings list pay here yet.

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask45%
  • Root cause38%
  • Tooling30%
  • Lean29%
  • Welding24%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Blue Origin28
  2. 2Magna19
  3. 3Hubbell11
  4. 4Polaris10
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Alabama: 235 open roles · #17 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,4362. Texas 9693. Ohio 5574. Michigan 4655. North Carolina 407

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Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

133 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 102 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

33%Technician
  • Engineer69 · 29%
  • Senior26 · 11%
  • Manager / lead38 · 16%
  • Supervisor24 · 10%
  • Technician78 · 33%

How fresh

When these roles went up

Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.

  • This week41
  • 8–14 days23
  • 15–30 daysMost111
  • 30+ days13
  • Date not listed47

Where

Top cities

  • Huntsville, ALMost roles56
  • Birmingham, AL26
  • Hartselle, AL11
  • Leeds, AL10
  • Decatur, AL9

Industries

Which industries are hiring

Openings by industry

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Go deeper: what moves pay

Belt and license premiums, pay by years asked, skills that come as a package, and the unusual perks plants offer.

See the findings →The pay model →

Source and method

Source
ShopFloorJobs analysis of 235 live plant job postings from 90 manufacturers' own careers sites (Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle, iCIMS, Greenhouse and others), not job boards.
Collected
Week of October 19, 2026. Postings are re-checked daily; closed roles drop out.
Method
Each posting is counted once per role and city. Teams and levels are read from the job title; pay is the middle of each posting's listed range, for engineer and senior engineer levels, shown where at least 3 postings list one; skills are counted when the posting names them.

Cite this report

ShopFloorJobs, "Alabama plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/alabama

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