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Washington · week of October 19, 2026

Washington plant jobs: 232 open roles at 88 manufacturers

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

See all 232 Washington roles →What Washington plants ask for →

232
open plant roles
27
posted in the last 7 days

12% of all openings

88
manufacturers hiring

SpaceX, Shield AI, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

$100k–$135k
typical engineering base

+6% vs the US

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Production has the most openings in Washington: 58 roles, ahead of reliability (53).

  2. 2

    $105k–$145k is the typical base for reliability engineers, the best-paid team here (10 postings list pay).

  3. 3

    6% above the US typical engineering base: Washington pays $100k–$135k.

  4. 4

    SpaceX is hiring the most, with 67 open plant roles, 6 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)

  • ReliabilityBest paid$105k–$145k
  • Process$82k–$135k
  • Quality$100k–$135k
  • Production$100k–$135k
  • Manufacturing$100k–$131k
  • Controls$100k–$122k
$80k$115k$150k

Skills plants name most

  • Root cause#1 ask39%
  • Team leadership31%
  • Lean28%
  • Tooling24%
  • Automation21%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1SpaceX67
  2. 2Shield AI22
  3. 3Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories14
  4. 4Crane13
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

Washington: 232 open roles · #18 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

141 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 91 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

31%Technician
  • Engineer68 · 29%
  • Senior34 · 15%
  • Manager / lead39 · 17%
  • Supervisor20 · 9%
  • Technician71 · 31%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week27
  • 8–14 days23
  • 15–30 days65
  • 30+ daysMost72
  • Date not listed45

Where

Top cities

  • Redmond, WAMost roles53
  • Seattle, WA26
  • Woodinville, WA16
  • Lynnwood, WA14
  • Pullman, WA14

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 232 live plant job postings from 88 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, "Washington plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/washington

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