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Louisiana · week of October 19, 2026

Louisiana plant jobs: 62 open roles at 43 manufacturers

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

See all 62 Louisiana roles →What Louisiana plants ask for →

62
open plant roles
14
posted in the last 7 days

23% of all openings

43
manufacturers hiring

LED FastStart, Copeland, Westlake

$86k–$126k
typical engineering base

-4% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Louisiana: 15 roles, ahead of production (15).

  2. 2

    4% below the US typical engineering base: Louisiana pays $86k–$126k.

  3. 3

    LED FastStart is hiring the most, with 7 open plant roles, 4 of them new this week.

  4. 4

    45% of postings name Team leadership, and 35% name Lean.

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 ask45%
  • Lean35%
  • Root cause32%
  • Six Sigma19%
  • EHS / safety18%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1LED FastStart7
  2. 2Copeland5
  3. 3Westlake3
  4. 4Scotts Miracle-Gro2
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Louisiana: 62 open roles · #38 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,3052. Texas 9223. Ohio 5014. Michigan 4435. Illinois 360

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Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

34 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 28 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

40%Engineer
  • Engineer25 · 40%
  • Senior5 · 8%
  • Manager / lead4 · 6%
  • Supervisor10 · 16%
  • Technician18 · 29%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week14
  • 8–14 days6
  • 15–30 days19
  • 30+ days3
  • Date not listedMost20

Where

Top cities

  • Natchitoches, LAMost roles5
  • Geismar, LA4
  • Franklin, LA4
  • Baton Rouge, LA4
  • Shreveport, LA3

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 62 live plant job postings from 43 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, "Louisiana plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/louisiana

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