Metals · week of October 19, 2026
Metals plant jobs: 149 open roles at 10 manufacturers
Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in metals, what it pays, and the skills they ask for.
How metals compares with other industries →
- 149
- open plant roles
- 10
- posted in the last 7 days
- 10
- manufacturers hiring
- $79k–$119k
- typical engineering base
7% of all openings
Zekelman Industries, Materion, Redwood Materials
-10% vs the US
The takeaways
- 1
Reliability has the most openings in Metals: 49 roles, ahead of controls (25).
- 2
$81k–$119k is the typical base for controls engineers, the best-paid team here (4 postings list pay).
- 3
10% below the US typical engineering base: Metals pays $79k–$119k.
- 4
Zekelman Industries is hiring the most, with 28 open plant roles, 1 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$81k–$119k
- Quality$72k–$105k
Skills plants name most
- Team leadership#1 ask34%
- PLC28%
- Root cause28%
- EHS / safety20%
- Automation19%
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Hiring the most
- 1Zekelman Industries28
- 2Materion26
- 3Redwood Materials22
- 4ATI19
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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
86 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 63 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.
- Engineer53 · 36%
- Senior19 · 13%
- Manager / lead14 · 9%
- Supervisor18 · 12%
- Technician45 · 30%
How fresh
When these roles went up
Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.
- This week10
- 8–14 days20
- 15–30 daysMost76
- 30+ days43
Where
Top cities
- McCarran, NVMost roles11
- Research Triangle Park, NCMost roles11
- Rochelle, IL10
- San Francisco, CA7
- Elmore, OH6
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 149 live plant job postings from 10 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, "Metals plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/industry/metals
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