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South Carolina · week of October 19, 2026

South Carolina plant jobs: 257 open roles at 73 manufacturers

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

See all 257 South Carolina roles →What South Carolina plants ask for →

257
open plant roles
54
posted in the last 7 days

21% of all openings

73
manufacturers hiring

ZF, Trane Technologies, Magna

$83k–$120k
typical engineering base

-9% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in South Carolina: 62 roles, ahead of quality (46).

  2. 2

    $86k–$126k is the typical base for lean / ci engineers, the best-paid team here (5 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    9% below the US typical engineering base: South Carolina pays $83k–$120k.

  4. 4

    ZF 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)

  • Lean / CIBest paid$86k–$126k
  • Manufacturing$94k–$125k
  • Quality$86k–$120k
  • Controls$95k–$120k
  • Process$80k–$100k
$80k$105k$130k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask42%
  • Lean36%
  • Root cause32%
  • Tooling21%
  • Automation18%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1ZF20
  2. 2Trane Technologies19
  3. 3Magna18
  4. 4Scout Motors14
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

South Carolina: 257 open roles · #13 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,2912. Texas 8903. Ohio 4894. Michigan 4395. Illinois 352

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Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

148 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 109 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

35%Engineer
  • Engineer90 · 35%
  • Senior20 · 8%
  • Manager / lead38 · 15%
  • Supervisor37 · 14%
  • Technician72 · 28%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week54
  • 8–14 days26
  • 15–30 daysMost109
  • 30+ days22
  • Date not listed46

Where

Top cities

  • Columbia, SCMost roles22
  • Piedmont, SC16
  • Gray Court, SC16
  • Duncan, SC14
  • Spartanburg, SC12

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 257 live plant job postings from 73 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, "South Carolina plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/south-carolina

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