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Virginia · week of October 19, 2026

Virginia plant jobs: 197 open roles at 71 manufacturers

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

See all 197 Virginia roles →What Virginia plants ask for →

197
open plant roles
31
posted in the last 7 days

16% of all openings

71
manufacturers hiring

Hitachi, Jabil, Rocket Lab

$76k–$105k
typical engineering base

-18% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in Virginia: 46 roles, ahead of manufacturing (44).

  2. 2

    $97k–$135k is the typical base for controls engineers, the best-paid team here (5 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    18% below the US typical engineering base: Virginia pays $76k–$105k.

  4. 4

    Hitachi is hiring the most, with 26 open plant roles, 2 of them new this week.

Explore by team

Openings and pay, team by team

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Open roles

openposted this week

Typical base pay (engineers and senior engineers)

  • ControlsBest paid$97k–$135k
  • Quality$76k–$114k
  • Manufacturing$66k–$90k
  • Process$62k–$82k
$60k$100k$140k

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask34%
  • Lean30%
  • Root cause29%
  • Six Sigma19%
  • New product launch18%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Hitachi26
  2. 2Jabil16
  3. 3Rocket Lab14
  4. 4Eaton9
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Virginia: 197 open roles · #22 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

108 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 89 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

34%Technician
  • Engineer48 · 24%
  • Senior18 · 9%
  • Manager / lead42 · 21%
  • Supervisor23 · 12%
  • Technician66 · 34%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week31
  • 8–14 days24
  • 15–30 daysMost96
  • 30+ days30
  • Date not listed16

Where

Top cities

  • South Boston, VAMost roles19
  • Prince George, VA16
  • Richmond, VA15
  • Wallops Island, VA13
  • Manassas, VA10

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 197 live plant job postings from 71 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, "Virginia plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/virginia

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