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Florida · week of October 19, 2026

Florida plant jobs: 295 open roles at 137 manufacturers

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

See all 295 Florida roles →What Florida plants ask for →

295
open plant roles
58
posted in the last 7 days

20% of all openings

137
manufacturers hiring

Blue Origin, SpaceX, Danaher

$71k–$112k
typical engineering base

-17% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Manufacturing has the most openings in Florida: 69 roles, ahead of reliability (61).

  2. 2

    $60k–$123k is the typical base for process engineers, the best-paid team here (3 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    17% below the US typical engineering base: Florida pays $71k–$112k.

  4. 4

    Blue Origin is hiring the most, with 36 open plant roles, 8 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)

  • ProcessBest paid$60k–$123k
  • Manufacturing$71k–$112k
  • Quality$65k–$105k
$60k$95k$130k

Skills plants name most

  • Root cause#1 ask39%
  • Team leadership34%
  • Lean32%
  • New product launch24%
  • Six Sigma21%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Blue Origin36
  2. 2SpaceX16
  3. 3Danaher13
  4. 4Jabil12
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Florida: 295 open roles · #13 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,4332. Texas 9703. Ohio 5574. Michigan 4645. North Carolina 409

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Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

169 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 126 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

33%Technician
  • Engineer87 · 29%
  • Senior35 · 12%
  • Manager / lead47 · 16%
  • Supervisor29 · 10%
  • Technician97 · 33%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week58
  • 8–14 days28
  • 15–30 daysMost125
  • 30+ days26
  • Date not listed58

Where

Top cities

  • Space Coast, FLMost roles36
  • Cape Canaveral, FL22
  • Jacksonville, FL19
  • Tampa, FL16
  • St. Petersburg, FL14

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 295 live plant job postings from 137 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, "Florida plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/florida

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