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Texas · week of October 19, 2026

Texas plant jobs: 970 open roles at 242 manufacturers

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

See all 970 Texas roles →What Texas plants ask for →

970
open plant roles
191
posted in the last 7 days

20% of all openings

242
manufacturers hiring

SpaceX, Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Flex

$86k–$126k
typical engineering base

-4% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Manufacturing has the most openings in Texas: 225 roles, ahead of reliability (219).

  2. 2

    $95k–$145k is the typical base for production engineers, the best-paid team here (5 postings list pay).

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    SpaceX is hiring the most, with 216 open plant roles, 9 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)

  • ProductionBest paid$95k–$145k
  • Controls$90k–$132k
  • Lean / CI$80k–$127k
  • Manufacturing$79k–$122k
  • Reliability$91k–$121k
  • Quality$90k–$121k
  • Process$76k–$120k
$70k$110k$150k

Skills plants name most

  • Root cause#1 ask36%
  • Team leadership31%
  • Lean25%
  • Automation23%
  • Tooling22%

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Hiring the most

  1. 1SpaceX216
  2. 2Samsung Austin Semiconductor73
  3. 3Flex37
  4. 4Applied Materials33
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Texas: 970 open roles · #2 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

581 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 389 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

36%Engineer
  • Engineer347 · 36%
  • Senior112 · 12%
  • Manager / lead122 · 13%
  • Supervisor90 · 9%
  • Technician299 · 31%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week191
  • 8–14 days108
  • 15–30 daysMost311
  • 30+ days275
  • Date not listed85

Where

Top cities

  • Bastrop, TXMost roles158
  • Austin, TX81
  • Taylor, TX74
  • Houston, TX52
  • Starbase, TX49

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.

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Source and method

Source
ShopFloorJobs analysis of 970 live plant job postings from 242 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, "Texas plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/texas

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