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Delaware · week of October 19, 2026

Delaware plant jobs: 53 open roles at 12 manufacturers

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

See all 53 Delaware roles →What Delaware plants ask for →

53
open plant roles
9
posted in the last 7 days

17% of all openings

12
manufacturers hiring

Qnity Electronics, Waters, Bloom Energy

$75k–$107k
typical engineering base

-18% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Manufacturing has the most openings in Delaware: 14 roles, ahead of reliability (11).

  2. 2

    18% below the US typical engineering base: Delaware pays $75k–$107k.

  3. 3

    Qnity Electronics is hiring the most, with 18 open plant roles, 3 of them new this week.

  4. 4

    45% of postings name Root cause, and 40% name Lean.

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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)

Too few postings list pay here yet.

Skills plants name most

  • Root cause#1 ask45%
  • Lean40%
  • Six Sigma32%
  • Union environment30%
  • Team leadership26%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Qnity Electronics18
  2. 2Waters12
  3. 3Bloom Energy7
  4. 4DuPont3
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Delaware: 53 open roles · #39 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

34 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 19 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

28%Technician
  • Engineer13 · 25%
  • Senior9 · 17%
  • Manager / lead12 · 23%
  • Supervisor4 · 8%
  • Technician15 · 28%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week9
  • 8–14 days7
  • 15–30 daysMost22
  • Date not listed15

Where

Top cities

  • Newark, DEMost roles23
  • New Castle, DE12
  • Wimington, DE5
  • Dover, DE3
  • Seaford, DE2

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 53 live plant job postings from 12 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, "Delaware plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/delaware

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