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West Virginia · week of October 19, 2026

West Virginia plant jobs: 20 open roles at 13 manufacturers

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

See all 20 West Virginia roles →What West Virginia plants ask for →

20
open plant roles
3
posted in the last 7 days

15% of all openings

13
manufacturers hiring

Westlake, Form Energy, Heidelberg Materials

—
typical engineering base

5% of postings list pay

The takeaways

  1. 1

    Reliability has the most openings in West Virginia: 7 roles, ahead of process (3).

  2. 2

    Westlake is hiring the most, with 4 open plant roles.

  3. 3

    50% of postings name Team leadership, and 30% name Welding.

Explore by team

Openings and pay, team by team

Tap a team to see its skills and hirers.

Open roles

openposted this week

Typical base pay (engineers and senior engineers)

Too few postings list pay here yet.

Skills plants name most

  • Team leadership#1 ask50%
  • Welding30%
  • PLC25%
  • EHS / safety25%
  • Automation20%

Top 5 shown. See all of them →

Hiring the most

  1. 1Westlake4
  2. 2Form Energy2
  3. 3Heidelberg Materials2
  4. 4Armacell2
  5. + the rest of the top hirers with a free account

By state

Where the plant jobs are

West Virginia: 20 open roles · #47 of 51

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

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FewerMore open rolestop 5this report

Who plants are hiring

Engineers, techs and supervisors

8 engineering and Lean / CI roles; 12 technician and supervisor roles on the same teams.

50%Technician
  • Engineer4 · 20%
  • Senior4 · 20%
  • Supervisor2 · 10%
  • Technician10 · 50%

How fresh

When these roles went up

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

  • This week3
  • 8–14 days1
  • 15–30 daysMost11
  • Date not listed5

Where

Top cities

  • Weirton, WVMost roles6
  • New Martinsville, WV5
  • Sistersville, WV1
  • Wheeling, WV1
  • Eleanor, WV1

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 20 live plant job postings from 13 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, "West Virginia plant jobs report, week of October 19, 2026," Week of October 19, 2026. https://shopfloorjobs.com/reports/west-virginia

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