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Indiana · week of October 19, 2026

Indiana plant jobs: 356 open roles at 111 manufacturers

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

See all 356 Indiana roles →What Indiana plants ask for →

356
open plant roles
77
posted in the last 7 days

22% of all openings

111
manufacturers hiring

Simtra BioPharma Solutions, Slate Auto, Hitachi Astemo

$89k–$121k
typical engineering base

-5% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Indiana: 97 roles, ahead of manufacturing (71).

  2. 2

    $98k–$146k is the typical base for reliability engineers, the best-paid team here (4 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    5% below the US typical engineering base: Indiana pays $89k–$121k.

  4. 4

    Simtra BioPharma Solutions is hiring the most, with 19 open plant roles.

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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)

  • ReliabilityBest paid$98k–$146k
  • Manufacturing$97k–$135k
  • Process$84k–$110k
  • Industrial$81k–$101k
  • Quality$84k–$100k
$80k$115k$150k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask47%
  • Root cause32%
  • Lean25%
  • PLC20%
  • New product launch17%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Simtra BioPharma Solutions19
  2. 2Slate Auto17
  3. 3Hitachi Astemo13
  4. 4Allison Transmission12
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Indiana: 356 open roles · #7 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

192 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 164 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

33%Technician
  • Engineer109 · 31%
  • Senior26 · 7%
  • Manager / lead57 · 16%
  • Supervisor45 · 13%
  • Technician119 · 33%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week77
  • 8–14 days47
  • 15–30 daysMost166
  • 30+ days29
  • Date not listed37

Where

Top cities

  • Indianapolis, INMost roles46
  • Lafayette, IN25
  • Bloomington, IN21
  • Warsaw, IN19
  • Fort Wayne, IN17

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 356 live plant job postings from 111 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, "Indiana plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/indiana

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