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North Dakota · week of October 19, 2026

North Dakota plant jobs: 27 open roles at 21 manufacturers

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

See all 27 North Dakota roles →What North Dakota plants ask for →

27
open plant roles
1
posted in the last 7 days

4% of all openings

21
manufacturers hiring

American Crystal Sugar, Cargill, Philadelphia Macaroni Company

$74k–$124k
typical engineering base

-10% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in North Dakota: 7 roles, ahead of quality (5).

  2. 2

    10% below the US typical engineering base: North Dakota pays $74k–$124k.

  3. 3

    American Crystal Sugar is hiring the most, with 5 open plant roles, 1 of them new this week.

  4. 4

    56% of postings name Team leadership, and 22% name Root cause.

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 ask56%
  • Root cause22%
  • PLC15%
  • Robotics15%
  • Automation15%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1American Crystal Sugar5
  2. 2Cargill2
  3. 3Philadelphia Macaroni Company2
  4. 4Jacobs1
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

North Dakota: 27 open roles · #43 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

10 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 17 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

48%Technician
  • Engineer6 · 22%
  • Senior1 · 4%
  • Manager / lead3 · 11%
  • Supervisor4 · 15%
  • Technician13 · 48%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week1
  • 8–14 days2
  • 15–30 days6
  • 30+ days2
  • Date not listedMost16

Where

Top cities

  • West Fargo, NDMost roles5
  • Fargo, ND4
  • Hillsboro, ND3
  • Drayton, ND3
  • Valley City, ND3

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 27 live plant job postings from 21 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 Dakota plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/north-dakota

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