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New Jersey · week of October 19, 2026

New Jersey plant jobs: 132 open roles at 62 manufacturers

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

See all 132 New Jersey roles →What New Jersey plants ask for →

132
open plant roles
16
posted in the last 7 days

12% of all openings

62
manufacturers hiring

ZT Systems, Champion Window and Home Exteriors, J&J Snack Foods

$110k–$155k
typical engineering base

+20% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Manufacturing has the most openings in New Jersey: 35 roles, ahead of reliability (28).

  2. 2

    $129k–$219k is the typical base for reliability engineers, the best-paid team here (4 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    20% above the US typical engineering base: New Jersey pays $110k–$155k.

  4. 4

    ZT Systems is hiring the most, with 20 open plant roles.

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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)

  • ReliabilityBest paid$129k–$219k
  • Manufacturing$100k–$155k
  • Quality$114k–$155k
  • Controls$111k–$150k
  • Process$99k–$149k
$90k$155k$220k

Skills plants name most

  • Root cause#1 ask44%
  • Team leadership43%
  • Lean40%
  • 5S20%
  • FDA / GMP18%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1ZT Systems20
  2. 2Champion Window and Home Exteriors18
  3. 3J&J Snack Foods6
  4. 4Trane Technologies5
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

New Jersey: 132 open roles · #28 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

79 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 53 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

28%Manager / lead
  • Engineer21 · 16%
  • Senior21 · 16%
  • Manager / lead37 · 28%
  • Supervisor19 · 14%
  • Technician34 · 26%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week16
  • 8–14 days30
  • 15–30 daysMost62
  • 30+ days7
  • Date not listed17

Where

Top cities

  • Secaucus, NJMost roles20
  • Trenton, NJ5
  • Parlin, NJ4
  • Raritan, NJ4
  • West Caldwell, NJ4

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.

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Source and method

Source
ShopFloorJobs analysis of 132 live plant job postings from 62 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, "New Jersey plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/new-jersey

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