ShopFloorJobs
↗ Share

North Carolina · week of October 19, 2026

North Carolina plant jobs: 407 open roles at 137 manufacturers

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

See all 407 North Carolina roles →What North Carolina plants ask for →

407
open plant roles
77
posted in the last 7 days

19% of all openings

137
manufacturers hiring

Eaton, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Smithfield Foods

$91k–$126k
typical engineering base

-2% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in North Carolina: 111 roles, ahead of manufacturing (71).

  2. 2

    $108k–$154k is the typical base for controls engineers, the best-paid team here (6 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    Eaton is hiring the most, with 43 open plant roles, 11 of them new this week.

  4. 4

    38% of postings name Team leadership, and 27% name Root cause.

Explore by team

Openings and pay, team by team

Tap a team to see its skills and hirers.

Open roles

openposted this week

Typical base pay (engineers and senior engineers)

  • ControlsBest paid$108k–$154k
  • Manufacturing$89k–$134k
  • Quality$96k–$126k
  • Process$77k–$89k
$70k$115k$160k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask38%
  • Root cause27%
  • Lean25%
  • PLC22%
  • Tooling18%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Eaton43
  2. 2Thermo Fisher Scientific22
  3. 3Smithfield Foods20
  4. 4Wolfspeed17
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

North Carolina: 407 open roles · #5 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,4362. Texas 9693. Ohio 5574. Michigan 4665. North Carolina 407

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFL
FewerMore open rolestop 5this report

Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

217 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 190 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

35%Technician
  • Engineer99 · 24%
  • Senior49 · 12%
  • Manager / lead69 · 17%
  • Supervisor48 · 12%
  • Technician142 · 35%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week77
  • 8–14 days51
  • 15–30 daysMost178
  • 30+ days48
  • Date not listed53

Where

Top cities

  • Charlotte, NCMost roles34
  • Durham, NC23
  • Raleigh, NC17
  • Kinston, NC16
  • Research Triangle Park, NC15

Industries

Which industries are hiring

Openings by industry

Free with an account. Takes 30 seconds.

Unlock the full reportSign in

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 407 live plant job postings from 137 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, "North Carolina plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/north-carolina

Free to quote and share with a link to this page.

Reports by state