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California · week of October 19, 2026

California plant jobs: 1436 open roles at 231 manufacturers

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

See all 1436 California roles →What California plants ask for →

1,436
open plant roles
226
posted in the last 7 days

16% of all openings

231
manufacturers hiring

Anduril Industries, SpaceX, Relativity Space

$109k–$155k
typical engineering base

+19% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Manufacturing has the most openings in California: 449 roles, ahead of reliability (265).

  2. 2

    $127k–$190k is the typical base for industrial engineers, the best-paid team here (13 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    19% above the US typical engineering base: California pays $109k–$155k.

  4. 4

    Anduril Industries is hiring the most, with 215 open plant roles, 19 of them new this week.

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Openings and pay, team by team

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Open roles

openposted this week

Typical base pay (engineers and senior engineers)

  • IndustrialBest paid$127k–$190k
  • Controls$123k–$179k
  • Process$116k–$171k
  • Reliability$111k–$160k
  • Manufacturing$104k–$149k
  • Lean / CI$109k–$149k
  • Quality$100k–$145k
  • Production$100k–$136k
$100k$145k$190k

Skills plants name most

  • Root cause#1 ask41%
  • New product launch32%
  • Tooling27%
  • Automation26%
  • Lean24%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Anduril Industries215
  2. 2SpaceX74
  3. 3Relativity Space66
  4. 4Applied Materials52
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

California: 1,436 open roles · #1 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

1,073 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 363 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

33%Engineer
  • Engineer468 · 33%
  • Senior375 · 26%
  • Manager / lead230 · 16%
  • Supervisor65 · 5%
  • Technician298 · 21%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week226
  • 8–14 days148
  • 15–30 days442
  • 30+ daysMost572
  • Date not listed48

Where

Top cities

  • Costa Mesa, CAMost roles159
  • Long Beach, CA143
  • Torrance, CA74
  • Hawthorne, CA71
  • Santa Clara, CA66

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 1,436 live plant job postings from 231 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, "California plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/california

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