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Nebraska · week of October 19, 2026

Nebraska plant jobs: 86 open roles at 42 manufacturers

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

See all 86 Nebraska roles →What Nebraska plants ask for →

86
open plant roles
13
posted in the last 7 days

15% of all openings

42
manufacturers hiring

Eaton, Smithfield Foods, Cargill

$86k–$126k
typical engineering base

-4% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Nebraska: 29 roles, ahead of production (21).

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    Eaton is hiring the most, with 8 open plant roles, 2 of them new this week.

  4. 4

    42% of postings name Team leadership, and 27% name Welding.

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 ask42%
  • Welding27%
  • PLC20%
  • Lean17%
  • Root cause16%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Eaton8
  2. 2Smithfield Foods8
  3. 3Cargill8
  4. 4Tyson Foods8
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Nebraska: 86 open roles · #35 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

40 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 46 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

40%Technician
  • Engineer15 · 17%
  • Senior8 · 9%
  • Manager / lead17 · 20%
  • Supervisor12 · 14%
  • Technician34 · 40%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week13
  • 8–14 days14
  • 15–30 daysMost32
  • 30+ days6
  • Date not listed21

Where

Top cities

  • Omaha, NEMost roles21
  • Lincoln, NE9
  • Crete, NE6
  • Omaha Plant - Omaha, NE5
  • Norfolk, NE5

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 86 live plant job postings from 42 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, "Nebraska plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/nebraska

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