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Kansas · week of October 19, 2026

Kansas plant jobs: 181 open roles at 76 manufacturers

Who's hiring plant engineers, technicians and supervisors in Kansas, what it pays, and what they ask for.

See all 181 Kansas roles →What Kansas plants ask for →

181
open plant roles
27
posted in the last 7 days

15% of all openings

76
manufacturers hiring

Panasonic, Elanco, J.M. Smucker

$104k–$143k
typical engineering base

+12% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Kansas: 54 roles, ahead of production (45).

  2. 2

    $105k–$160k is the typical base for controls engineers, the best-paid team here (3 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    12% above the US typical engineering base: Kansas pays $104k–$143k.

  4. 4

    Panasonic is hiring the most, with 32 open plant roles, 1 of them new this week.

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Openings and pay, team by team

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Open roles

openposted this week

Typical base pay (engineers and senior engineers)

  • ControlsBest paid$105k–$160k
$100k$130k$160k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask62%
  • Root cause35%
  • Lean30%
  • EHS / safety23%
  • Six Sigma19%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Panasonic32
  2. 2Elanco12
  3. 3J.M. Smucker11
  4. 4J.M. Smucker11
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Kansas: 181 open roles · #23 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,4362. Texas 9693. Ohio 5574. Michigan 4655. North Carolina 407

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Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

89 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 92 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

33%Technician
  • Engineer41 · 23%
  • Senior9 · 5%
  • Manager / lead39 · 22%
  • Supervisor33 · 18%
  • Technician59 · 33%

How fresh

When these roles went up

Roles posted in the last two weeks get the fastest replies from teams.

  • This week27
  • 8–14 days21
  • 15–30 daysMost69
  • 30+ days16
  • Date not listed48

Where

Top cities

  • De Soto, KSMost roles32
  • Olathe, KS15
  • Emporia, KS14
  • Wichita, KS13
  • Elwood, KS12

Industries

Which industries are hiring

Openings by industry

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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.

See the findings →The pay model →

Source and method

Source
ShopFloorJobs analysis of 181 live plant job postings from 76 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, "Kansas plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/kansas

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