Packaging · week of October 19, 2026
Packaging plant jobs: 326 open roles at 18 manufacturers
Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in packaging, what it pays, and the skills they ask for.
How packaging compares with other industries →
- 326
- open plant roles
- 43
- posted in the last 7 days
- 18
- manufacturers hiring
- $105k–$118k
- typical engineering base
13% of all openings
Altium Packaging, Sonoco, Silgan Containers
+1% vs the US
The takeaways
- 1
Reliability has the most openings in Packaging: 148 roles, ahead of production (57).
- 2
Altium Packaging is hiring the most, with 51 open plant roles, 8 of them new this week.
- 3
59% of postings name Team leadership, and 26% name PLC.
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)
Too few postings list pay here yet.
Skills plants name most
- Team leadership#1 ask59%
- PLC26%
- EHS / safety25%
- Root cause22%
- Welding20%
Top 5 shown. See all of them →
Hiring the most
- 1Altium Packaging51
- 2Sonoco43
- 3Silgan Containers34
- 4Menasha30
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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
80 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 246 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.
- Engineer44 · 13%
- Senior5 · 2%
- Manager / lead31 · 10%
- Supervisor51 · 16%
- Technician195 · 60%
How fresh
When these roles went up
Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.
- This week43
- 8–14 days51
- 15–30 daysMost200
- 30+ days5
- Date not listed27
Where
Top cities
- Olyphant, PAMost roles10
- Phoenix, AZ8
- Painesville, OH5
- Peachtree City, GA5
- Hawesville, KY5
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 326 live plant job postings from 18 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, "Packaging plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/industry/packaging
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