Tennessee · week of October 19, 2026

Tennessee plant jobs: 268 open roles at 112 manufacturers

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

See all 268 Tennessee roles →What Tennessee plants ask for →

268
open plant roles: 34
posted in the last 7 days: 112
manufacturers hiring: $83k–$120k
typical engineering base

The takeaways

1
Manufacturing has the most openings in Tennessee: 63 roles, ahead of reliability (60).
2
$83k–$134k is the typical base for manufacturing engineers, the best-paid team here (6 postings list pay).
3
8% below the US typical engineering base: Tennessee pays $83k–$120k.
4
Nidec is hiring the most, with 11 open plant roles, 2 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)

ManufacturingBest paid$83k–$134k
Quality$80k–$120k
Process$83k–$109k

$80k$110k$140k

Skills plants name most

Team leadership#1 ask46%
Lean34%
Root cause34%
Tooling24%
PLC21%

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Hiring the most

1Nidec11
2Jabil11
3Mueller Water Products9
4DENSO9
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By state

Where the plant jobs are

Tennessee: 268 open roles · #15 of 51

Top 5:1. California 1,433 2. Texas 970 3. Ohio 557 4. Michigan 464 5. North Carolina 409

FewerMore open rolestop 5this report

Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

136 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 132 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

32%Technician

Engineer75 · 28%
Senior24 · 9%
Manager / lead37 · 14%
Supervisor47 · 18%
Technician85 · 32%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

This week34
8–14 days36
15–30 daysMost134
30+ days25
Date not listed39

Where

Top cities

Memphis, TNMost roles52
Jackson, TN11
Chattanooga, TN11
Spring Hill, TN9
Fayetteville, TN8

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 268 live plant job postings from 112 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, "Tennessee plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/tennessee

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