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Idaho · week of October 19, 2026

Idaho plant jobs: 75 open roles at 41 manufacturers

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

See all 75 Idaho roles →What Idaho plants ask for →

75
open plant roles
7
posted in the last 7 days

9% of all openings

41
manufacturers hiring

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Oklo, The Kinetic Group

$89k–$134k
typical engineering base

+1% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Idaho: 21 roles, ahead of process (15).

  2. 2

    $89k–$149k is the typical base for controls engineers, the best-paid team here (4 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories is hiring the most, with 21 open plant roles.

  4. 4

    47% of postings name Team leadership, and 25% name Root cause.

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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)

  • ControlsBest paid$89k–$149k
  • Process$89k–$134k
$80k$115k$150k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask47%
  • Root cause25%
  • Automation19%
  • EHS / safety15%
  • PLC13%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories21
  2. 2Oklo4
  3. 3The Kinetic Group3
  4. 4UFP Industries3
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Idaho: 75 open roles · #37 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

48 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 27 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

37%Engineer
  • Engineer28 · 37%
  • Senior5 · 7%
  • Manager / lead15 · 20%
  • Supervisor6 · 8%
  • Technician21 · 28%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week7
  • 8–14 days5
  • 15–30 days10
  • 30+ days6
  • Date not listedMost47

Where

Top cities

  • Nampa, IDMost roles17
  • Lewiston, ID14
  • Boise, ID12
  • Idaho Falls, ID9
  • Twin Falls, ID4

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 75 live plant job postings from 41 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, "Idaho plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/idaho

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