Pharma & life sciences · week of October 19, 2026
Pharma & life sciences plant jobs: 477 open roles at 27 manufacturers
Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in pharma & life sciences, what it pays, and the skills they ask for.
How pharma & life sciences compares with other industries →
- 477
- open plant roles
- 99
- posted in the last 7 days
- 27
- manufacturers hiring
- $93k–$127k
- typical engineering base
21% of all openings
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Danaher, PCI Pharma Services
+0% vs the US
The takeaways
- 1
Manufacturing has the most openings in Pharma & life sciences: 118 roles, ahead of quality (109).
- 2
$107k–$155k is the typical base for lean / ci engineers, the best-paid team here (4 postings list pay).
- 3
Thermo Fisher Scientific is hiring the most, with 85 open plant roles, 26 of them new this week.
- 4
55% of postings name FDA / GMP, and 34% name Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ).
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)
- Lean / CIBest paid$107k–$155k
- Manufacturing$92k–$135k
- Reliability$107k–$134k
- Quality$93k–$125k
- Process$94k–$125k
- Controls$93k–$121k
- Production$78k–$117k
Skills plants name most
- FDA / GMP#1 ask55%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)34%
- Team leadership34%
- Root cause30%
- Automation25%
Top 5 shown. See all of them →
Hiring the most
- 1Thermo Fisher Scientific85
- 2Danaher70
- 3PCI Pharma Services46
- 4Catalent35
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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
286 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 191 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.
- Engineer104 · 22%
- Senior84 · 18%
- Manager / lead98 · 21%
- Supervisor24 · 5%
- Technician167 · 35%
How fresh
When these roles went up
Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.
- This week99
- 8–14 days68
- 15–30 daysMost242
- 30+ days28
- Date not listed40
Where
Top cities
- Bedford, NHMost roles25
- Bloomington, IN19
- Portsmouth, NH17
- Boston, MA17
- Indianapolis, IN15
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 477 live plant job postings from 27 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, "Pharma & life sciences plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/industry/pharma-and-life-sciences
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