Chemicals · week of October 19, 2026
Chemicals plant jobs: 341 open roles at 36 manufacturers
Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in chemicals, what it pays, and the skills they ask for.
How chemicals compares with other industries →
- 341
- open plant roles
- 68
- posted in the last 7 days
- 36
- manufacturers hiring
- $88k–$117k
- typical engineering base
20% of all openings
Westlake, Qnity Electronics, Mitsubishi Chemical
-8% vs the US
The takeaways
- 1
Reliability has the most openings in Chemicals: 142 roles, ahead of production (53).
- 2
$123k–$186k is the typical base for controls engineers, the best-paid team here (3 postings list pay).
- 3
8% below the US typical engineering base: Chemicals pays $88k–$117k.
- 4
Westlake is hiring the most, with 40 open plant roles, 6 of them new this week.
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)
- ControlsBest paid$123k–$186k
- Manufacturing$100k–$176k
- Production$95k–$150k
- Quality$88k–$117k
- Process$85k–$115k
- Reliability$80k–$100k
Skills plants name most
- Team leadership#1 ask41%
- Root cause37%
- SAP24%
- EHS / safety22%
- PLC22%
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Hiring the most
- 1Westlake40
- 2Qnity Electronics29
- 3Mitsubishi Chemical25
- 4Evonik22
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By state
Where the plant jobs are
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Top 5:1. California 1,0802. Texas 8163. Ohio 4754. Michigan 4215. Illinois 358
Who plants are hiring
Engineers, techs and supervisors
179 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 162 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.
- Engineer104 · 30%
- Senior27 · 8%
- Manager / lead48 · 14%
- Supervisor28 · 8%
- Technician134 · 39%
How fresh
When these roles went up
Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.
- This week68
- 8–14 days35
- 15–30 daysMost233
- 30+ days5
Where
Top cities
- Newark, DEMost roles16
- Alvin, TX8
- Lafayette, IN8
- Winnemucca, NV6
- Sealy, TX5
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 341 live plant job postings from 36 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, "Chemicals plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/industry/chemicals
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