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South Dakota · week of October 19, 2026

South Dakota plant jobs: 56 open roles at 34 manufacturers

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

See all 56 South Dakota roles →What South Dakota plants ask for →

56
open plant roles
7
posted in the last 7 days

13% of all openings

34
manufacturers hiring

Smithfield Foods, 3M, Solventum

$99k–$121k
typical engineering base

+0% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in South Dakota: 17 roles, ahead of manufacturing (11).

  2. 2

    $68k–$102k is the typical base for manufacturing engineers, the best-paid team here (3 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    Smithfield Foods is hiring the most, with 10 open plant roles, 1 of them new this week.

  4. 4

    39% of postings name Team leadership, and 27% name PLC.

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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)

  • ManufacturingBest paid$68k–$102k
$60k$85k$110k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask39%
  • PLC27%
  • Automation21%
  • Root cause21%
  • EHS / safety18%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Smithfield Foods10
  2. 23M5
  3. 3Solventum3
  4. 4POET3
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

South Dakota: 56 open roles · #39 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,1102. Texas 8163. Ohio 4754. Michigan 4235. Illinois 361

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Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

26 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 30 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

36%Engineer
  • Engineer20 · 36%
  • Senior2 · 4%
  • Manager / lead4 · 7%
  • Supervisor10 · 18%
  • Technician20 · 36%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week7
  • 8–14 days12
  • 15–30 daysMost20
  • Date not listed17

Where

Top cities

  • Sioux Falls, SDMost roles24
  • Aberdeen, SD3
  • Yankton, SD2
  • Watertown, SD1
  • Custer, SD1

Industries

Which industries are hiring

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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 56 live plant job postings from 34 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 Dakota plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/south-dakota

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