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Michigan · week of October 19, 2026

Michigan plant jobs: 464 open roles at 104 manufacturers

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

See all 464 Michigan roles →What Michigan plants ask for →

464
open plant roles
84
posted in the last 7 days

18% of all openings

104
manufacturers hiring

Ford, Magna, General Motors

$76k–$143k
typical engineering base

-1% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Manufacturing has the most openings in Michigan: 100 roles, ahead of reliability (90).

  2. 2

    $74k–$162k is the typical base for manufacturing engineers, the best-paid team here (23 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    Ford is hiring the most, with 63 open plant roles, 18 of them new this week.

  4. 4

    38% of postings name Team leadership, and 32% name Root cause.

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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$74k–$162k
  • Quality$78k–$149k
  • Controls$74k–$135k
  • Process$78k–$130k
  • Lean / CI$78k–$130k
  • Industrial$84k–$125k
$70k$120k$170k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask38%
  • Root cause32%
  • Lean31%
  • New product launch30%
  • Automation26%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Ford63
  2. 2Magna46
  3. 3General Motors36
  4. 4Trane Technologies25
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Michigan: 464 open roles · #4 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

293 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 171 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

42%Engineer
  • Engineer195 · 42%
  • Senior49 · 11%
  • Manager / lead49 · 11%
  • Supervisor56 · 12%
  • Technician115 · 25%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week84
  • 8–14 days59
  • 15–30 daysMost228
  • 30+ days36
  • Date not listed57

Where

Top cities

  • Warren, MIMost roles38
  • Dearborn, MIMost roles38
  • Grand Rapids, MI33
  • Holland, MI16
  • Lansing, MI14

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 464 live plant job postings from 104 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, "Michigan plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/michigan

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