Industrial · week of October 19, 2026
Industrial plant jobs: 5441 open roles at 1456 manufacturers
Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in industrial, what it pays, and the skills they ask for.
How industrial compares with other industries →
- 5,441
- open plant roles
- 854
- posted in the last 7 days
- 1456
- manufacturers hiring
- $89k–$128k
- typical engineering base
16% of all openings
Eaton, Jabil, Applied Materials
-2% vs the US
The takeaways
- 1
Manufacturing has the most openings in Industrial: 1,243 roles, ahead of reliability (1,025).
- 2
$100k–$138k is the typical base for process engineers, the best-paid team here (141 postings list pay).
- 3
Eaton is hiring the most, with 254 open plant roles, 69 of them new this week.
- 4
39% of postings name Team leadership, and 31% name Root cause.
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)
- ProcessBest paid$100k–$138k
- Controls$90k–$134k
- Reliability$98k–$133k
- Quality$86k–$126k
- Lean / CI$86k–$126k
- Production$90k–$125k
- Industrial$86k–$124k
- Manufacturing$85k–$124k
Skills plants name most
- Team leadership#1 ask39%
- Root cause31%
- Lean31%
- Automation20%
- Tooling19%
Top 5 shown. See all of them →
Hiring the most
- 1Eaton254
- 2Jabil140
- 3Applied Materials122
- 4Trane Technologies121
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By state
Where the plant jobs are
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Top 5:1. California 1,4362. Texas 9693. Ohio 5574. Michigan 4655. North Carolina 407
Who plants are hiring
Engineers, techs and supervisors
3,100 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 2,341 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.
- Engineer1,620 · 30%
- Senior531 · 10%
- Manager / lead949 · 17%
- Supervisor626 · 12%
- Technician1,715 · 32%
How fresh
When these roles went up
Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.
- This week854
- 8–14 days697
- 15–30 daysMost2,198
- 30+ days434
- Date not listed1,258
Where
Top cities
- Taylor, TXMost roles73
- Austin, TX70
- Florence, KY62
- Santa Clara, CA52
- Fremont, CA51
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 5,441 live plant job postings from 1,456 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, "Industrial plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/industry/industrial
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