Colorado · week of October 19, 2026

Colorado plant jobs: 199 open roles at 94 manufacturers

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

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199
open plant roles: 36
posted in the last 7 days: 94
manufacturers hiring: $88k–$129k
typical engineering base

The takeaways

1
Manufacturing has the most openings in Colorado: 45 roles, ahead of reliability (38).
2
$105k–$150k is the typical base for production engineers, the best-paid team here (3 postings list pay).
3
Ursa Major is hiring the most, with 11 open plant roles, 1 of them new this week.
4
36% of postings name Root cause, and 33% name Team leadership.

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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)

ProductionBest paid$105k–$150k
Controls$97k–$145k
Manufacturing$88k–$130k
Process$100k–$130k
Quality$79k–$119k
Lean / CI$81k–$110k

$70k$110k$150k

Skills plants name most

Root cause#1 ask36%
Team leadership33%
Lean31%
Six Sigma23%
New product launch23%

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Hiring the most

1Ursa Major11
2Trane Technologies9
3Jabil8
4IDEX7
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By state

Where the plant jobs are

Colorado: 199 open roles · #21 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,433 2. Texas 970 3. Ohio 557 4. Michigan 464 5. North Carolina 409

FewerMore open rolestop 5this report

Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

123 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 76 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

30%Engineer

Engineer59 · 30%
Senior37 · 19%
Manager / lead27 · 14%
Supervisor24 · 12%
Technician52 · 26%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

This week36
8–14 days19
15–30 daysMost81
30+ days28
Date not listed35

Where

Top cities

Denver, COMost roles26
Longmont, CO21
Broomfield, CO17
Colorado Springs, CO14
Berthoud, CO11

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.

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Source and method

Source: ShopFloorJobs analysis of 199 live plant job postings from 94 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, "Colorado plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/colorado

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