Automotive · week of October 19, 2026
Automotive plant jobs: 1051 open roles at 44 manufacturers
Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in automotive, what it pays, and the skills they ask for.
How automotive compares with other industries →
- 1,051
- open plant roles
- 171
- posted in the last 7 days
- 44
- manufacturers hiring
- $84k–$141k
- typical engineering base
16% of all openings
Magna, Ford, General Motors
+2% vs the US
The takeaways
- 1
Manufacturing has the most openings in Automotive: 231 roles, ahead of quality (205).
- 2
$111k–$153k is the typical base for reliability engineers, the best-paid team here (7 postings list pay).
- 3
Magna is hiring the most, with 147 open plant roles, 10 of them new this week.
- 4
38% of postings name Root cause, and 38% name Team leadership.
Explore by team
Openings and pay, team by team
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Open roles
openposted this week
Typical base pay (engineers and senior engineers)
- ReliabilityBest paid$111k–$153k
- Controls$92k–$146k
- Manufacturing$84k–$145k
- Industrial$80k–$125k
- Process$80k–$121k
- Lean / CI$73k–$121k
- Quality$84k–$120k
Skills plants name most
- Root cause#1 ask38%
- Team leadership38%
- Lean30%
- New product launch29%
- Tooling28%
Top 5 shown. See all of them →
Hiring the most
- 1Magna147
- 2Ford104
- 3General Motors57
- 4Tenneco53
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By state
Where the plant jobs are
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Top 5:1. California 1,2912. Texas 8903. Ohio 4894. Michigan 4395. Illinois 352
Who plants are hiring
Engineers, techs and supervisors
669 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 382 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.
- Engineer442 · 42%
- Senior121 · 12%
- Manager / lead106 · 10%
- Supervisor124 · 12%
- Technician258 · 25%
How fresh
When these roles went up
Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.
- This week171
- 8–14 days133
- 15–30 daysMost490
- 30+ days179
- Date not listed78
Where
Top cities
- Warren, MIMost roles37
- Dearborn, MI33
- Garden Grove, CA28
- Torrance, CA26
- Manteno, IL26
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.
Source and method
- Source
- ShopFloorJobs analysis of 1,051 live plant job postings from 44 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, "Automotive plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/industry/automotive
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