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Kentucky · week of October 19, 2026

Kentucky plant jobs: 240 open roles at 74 manufacturers

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

See all 240 Kentucky roles →What Kentucky plants ask for →

240
open plant roles
61
posted in the last 7 days

25% of all openings

74
manufacturers hiring

Jabil, Hitachi Astemo, Magna

$87k–$145k
typical engineering base

+5% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Production has the most openings in Kentucky: 61 roles, ahead of reliability (48).

  2. 2

    $88k–$150k is the typical base for manufacturing engineers, the best-paid team here (6 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    5% above the US typical engineering base: Kentucky pays $87k–$145k.

  4. 4

    Jabil is hiring the most, with 54 open plant roles, 18 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)

  • ManufacturingBest paid$88k–$150k
  • Controls$90k–$145k
$80k$115k$150k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask42%
  • Root cause34%
  • Lean26%
  • Automation24%
  • Tooling19%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Jabil54
  2. 2Hitachi Astemo16
  3. 3Magna12
  4. 4Ford10
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Kentucky: 240 open roles · #16 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,4332. Texas 9703. Ohio 5574. Michigan 4645. North Carolina 409

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Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

132 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 108 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

34%Engineer
  • Engineer81 · 34%
  • Senior22 · 9%
  • Manager / lead29 · 12%
  • Supervisor40 · 17%
  • Technician68 · 28%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week61
  • 8–14 days33
  • 15–30 daysMost117
  • 30+ days8
  • Date not listed21

Where

Top cities

  • Florence, KYMost roles68
  • Louisville, KY27
  • Berea, KY13
  • Hopkinsville, KY9
  • Bowling Green, KY9

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 240 live plant job postings from 74 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, "Kentucky plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/kentucky

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