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Ohio · week of October 19, 2026

Ohio plant jobs: 557 open roles at 166 manufacturers

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

See all 557 Ohio roles →What Ohio plants ask for →

557
open plant roles
79
posted in the last 7 days

14% of all openings

166
manufacturers hiring

Anduril Industries, Silfex, Illuminate USA

$81k–$115k
typical engineering base

-11% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Ohio: 139 roles, ahead of production (122).

  2. 2

    $165k–$242k is the typical base for lean / ci engineers, the best-paid team here (4 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    11% below the US typical engineering base: Ohio pays $81k–$115k.

  4. 4

    Anduril Industries is hiring the most, with 43 open plant roles, 4 of them new this week.

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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)

  • Lean / CIBest paid$165k–$242k
  • Quality$90k–$130k
  • Controls$92k–$125k
  • Industrial$74k–$125k
  • Process$83k–$115k
  • Manufacturing$80k–$105k
  • Reliability$69k–$98k
$60k$155k$250k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask52%
  • Lean36%
  • Root cause29%
  • Six Sigma20%
  • Tooling18%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Anduril Industries43
  2. 2Silfex29
  3. 3Illuminate USA20
  4. 4First Solar19
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Ohio: 557 open roles · #3 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

284 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 273 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

33%Technician
  • Engineer153 · 27%
  • Senior39 · 7%
  • Manager / lead92 · 17%
  • Supervisor90 · 16%
  • Technician183 · 33%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week79
  • 8–14 days72
  • 15–30 daysMost295
  • 30+ days69
  • Date not listed42

Where

Top cities

  • Ashville, OHMost roles43
  • Cincinnati, OH23
  • Springfield, OH23
  • Pataskala, OH21
  • Columbus, OH19

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 557 live plant job postings from 166 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, "Ohio plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/ohio

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