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Pennsylvania · week of October 19, 2026

Pennsylvania plant jobs: 326 open roles at 121 manufacturers

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

See all 326 Pennsylvania roles →What Pennsylvania plants ask for →

326
open plant roles
57
posted in the last 7 days

17% of all openings

121
manufacturers hiring

First Quality, Eaton, Altium Packaging

$86k–$126k
typical engineering base

-4% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Pennsylvania: 85 roles, ahead of production (74).

  2. 2

    $86k–$143k is the typical base for industrial engineers, the best-paid team here (3 postings list pay).

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    First Quality is hiring the most, with 21 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)

  • IndustrialBest paid$86k–$143k
  • Controls$88k–$133k
  • Quality$88k–$130k
  • Manufacturing$86k–$118k
$80k$115k$150k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask44%
  • Root cause29%
  • Lean26%
  • Automation20%
  • Tooling17%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1First Quality21
  2. 2Eaton11
  3. 3Altium Packaging10
  4. 4Canpack10
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Pennsylvania: 326 open roles · #11 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

164 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 162 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

39%Technician
  • Engineer89 · 27%
  • Senior18 · 6%
  • Manager / lead57 · 17%
  • Supervisor35 · 11%
  • Technician127 · 39%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week57
  • 8–14 days47
  • 15–30 daysMost170
  • 30+ days20
  • Date not listed32

Where

Top cities

  • Allentown, PAMost roles12
  • Reading, PA11
  • York, PA10
  • West Chester, PA10
  • Olyphant, PA10

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 326 live plant job postings from 121 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, "Pennsylvania plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/pennsylvania

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