Medical devices · week of October 19, 2026
Medical devices plant jobs: 394 open roles at 36 manufacturers
Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in medical devices, what it pays, and the skills they ask for.
How medical devices compares with other industries →
- 394
- open plant roles
- 101
- posted in the last 7 days
- 36
- manufacturers hiring
- $90k–$136k
- typical engineering base
26% of all openings
Medline, Baxter, Johnson & Johnson MedTech
+2% vs the US
The takeaways
- 1
Quality has the most openings in Medical devices: 135 roles, ahead of reliability (92).
- 2
$103k–$155k is the typical base for process engineers, the best-paid team here (7 postings list pay).
- 3
Medline is hiring the most, with 38 open plant roles, 11 of them new this week.
- 4
47% of postings name Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), and 46% name FDA / GMP.
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$103k–$155k
- Lean / CI$109k–$154k
- Reliability$106k–$149k
- Controls$109k–$149k
- Manufacturing$89k–$136k
- Quality$89k–$129k
Skills plants name most
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)#1 ask47%
- FDA / GMP46%
- Root cause42%
- Team leadership35%
- ISO 1348527%
Top 5 shown. See all of them →
Hiring the most
- 1Medline38
- 2Baxter34
- 3Johnson & Johnson MedTech29
- 4Boston Scientific27
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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
251 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 143 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.
- Engineer110 · 28%
- Senior125 · 32%
- Manager / lead16 · 4%
- Supervisor21 · 5%
- Technician122 · 31%
How fresh
When these roles went up
Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.
- This week101
- 8–14 days58
- 15–30 daysMost214
- 30+ days21
Where
Top cities
- Arden Hills, MNMost roles13
- Marion, NC12
- Santa Clara, CA12
- Memphis, TN9
- Casa Grande, AZ9
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 394 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, "Medical devices plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/industry/medical-devices
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