Engineering Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Local government data shows two different baselines. In 2025, Kansas City architecture and engineering occupations employed 21,440 people with a mean annual wage of $97,640 and a median of $92,660. Scientific occupations were smaller at 8,740 workers, with a mean of $86,640 and a median of $78,090. Recent posted pay is higher but should be treated as directional: local salary-disclosing postings center on about $122k to $166k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Missouri's mean offered salary on new Engineering & Scientific openings at about $95,617 in September 2026 (n=260).

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Advertised pay

Across the 58 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $85,250 at the 25th percentile, $122,500 at the median and $158,682 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

Kansas City is a favorable but selective market for Engineering & Scientific roles over the next 3-6 months. The metro unemployment rate was 3.9% in August 2026, while Kansas City manufacturing employment rose 2.3543% year-over-year and professional and business services rose 0.8170%, giving engineers a better backdrop than the headline labor market alone suggests. Statewide, engineering and scientific employment in Missouri was up 4.6% year-over-year in September 2026 and active postings were up 2.6%, outperforming a Missouri market that was essentially flat overall.

Best positioned: Candidates with civil, mechanical, or project-delivery backgrounds who can show AutoCAD, Revit, MicroStation, or SolidWorks capability and, for infrastructure work, PE-track credibility have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not mistake this for a broad remote-friendly STEM market: about 75% of local postings are on-site, about 5% are remote, and the typical active posting has been open around 39 days.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 129 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. WSP Global Inc.: 16 open roles
2. Kansas City National Security Campus: 11 open roles
3. Black & Veatch Corporation: 9 open roles
4. Jacobs Engineering Group: 5 open roles
5. Kiewit Infrastructure Co.: 5 open roles
6. Burns & McDonnell: 4 open roles
7. Kiewit: 4 open roles
8. Enercon: 3 open roles
9. Faith Technologies Incorporated: 3 open roles
10. Garmin: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Kansas City: 38
• Overland Park: 36
• Lenexa: 20
• Olathe: 10
• Houston: 4
• Boise, Idaho, United States or Kansas City: 2
• Blue Springs: 2
• Boise, Idaho, United States; Kansas City, Missouri, United States; Minneapolis: 2

Work arrangement

on-site 108 (84%), hybrid 21 (16%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in project-based engineering tied to construction and consulting rather than broad research hiring. In the local posting mix, construction accounts for about 30% of Engineering & Scientific openings, architectural and engineering services about 15%, design services about 10%, business consulting about 10%, and civil engineering about 10%. That lines up with metro supersector growth in manufacturing and professional and business services, two common demand channels for engineers. That matters because the local evidence on scientific roles is thinner and the broad scientific occupational group is much smaller than the architecture and engineering group in Kansas City: about 8,740 workers versus 21,440 in 2025. The local skill mix also tilts toward AutoCAD, Revit, MicroStation, SolidWorks, and project management, which points more toward design, infrastructure, and product-delivery work than lab-heavy research hiring.

• Infrastructure and civil project delivery (high): This is the clearest local opportunity pocket because construction is the largest demand segment and PE-related credibility still shows up in employer requirements.
• Architectural, engineering, and consulting services (high): Design services, architectural and engineering services, and business consulting together make up a large share of the local sample, favoring candidates who can combine tools with client or project ownership.
• Mechanical and manufacturing support (moderate): Manufacturing growth in the metro supports mechanical, equipment, and industrial engineering work, especially where SolidWorks or hands-on delivery matters.
• Scientific and lab-centered roles (limited): These roles exist, but the evidence is thinner and the local market looks smaller than engineering proper, with lower broad-group pay benchmarks than architecture and engineering.

Where to focus: Focus first on employers whose work sits at the intersection of construction, civil or infrastructure, and consulting, and show tool fluency in AutoCAD plus either Revit or MicroStation for building and civil work, or SolidWorks for mechanical work.

Roles worth searching next

• BIM coordinator: Kansas City demand is heavy in construction, architectural and engineering services, and design, and Revit is a common requested skill.
• Construction project coordinator: Project management is a top requested skill and construction is the largest local demand segment.
• Quality assurance specialist: Scientific and manufacturing candidates can reuse documentation, validation, and regulated-process habits even though local evidence skews more toward engineering than lab work.
• Field service technician or equipment support specialist: Manufacturing growth and a new local industrial-equipment facility support hands-on technical roles around machines, service, and customer sites.

What postings ask for

• Professional Engineer (PE) license (differentiator | immediate): It is the most commonly named credential in local postings and maps especially well to civil and infrastructure work. Who: Civil engineers, project engineers, and anyone already on the FE-to-PE path.
• AutoCAD (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill locally at about 20% of sampled postings. Who: Entry-level applicants, drafters moving up, and engineers without recent design-software evidence.
• Project management (differentiator | immediate): It appears in about 15% of local postings and matters because the market leans toward construction, consulting, and civil project delivery. Who: Mid-career engineers, technical leads, and switchers from operations or construction.
• Revit (differentiator | immediate): It appears in about 10% of local postings and is a direct fit for building, BIM, and multidisciplinary design work. Who: Civil, architectural, structural, and MEP-adjacent candidates.
• MicroStation (premium | near-term): It appears in about 5% of local postings and can separate candidates in transportation and civil infrastructure workflows. Who: Civil and transportation candidates targeting infrastructure-heavy firms.
• SolidWorks (premium | near-term): It appears in about 5% of local postings and is one of the clearest software signals for mechanical and product-side roles. Who: Mechanical engineers, product designers, and manufacturing-adjacent candidates.

Questions about this market

What do Engineering & Scientific roles pay in Kansas City, MO-KS?

Local government data shows two different baselines. In 2025, Kansas City architecture and engineering occupations employed 21,440 people with a mean annual wage of $97,640 and a median of $92,660. Scientific occupations were smaller at 8,740 workers, with a mean of $86,640 and a median of $78,090. Recent posted pay is higher but should be treated as directional: local salary-disclosing postings center on about $122k to $166k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Missouri's mean offered salary on new Engineering & Scientific openings at about $95,617 in September 2026 (n=260). Kansas City can pay well, but the posted-market numbers look skewed toward experienced project and consulting roles rather than the whole occupation base. That reading fits the seniority mix, where about 30% of postings are senior and about 15% are lead+.

Where is demand for Engineering & Scientific roles in Kansas City, MO-KS concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in project-based engineering tied to construction and consulting rather than broad research hiring. In the local posting mix, construction accounts for about 30% of Engineering & Scientific openings, architectural and engineering services about 15%, design services about 10%, business consulting about 10%, and civil engineering about 10%. That lines up with metro supersector growth in manufacturing and professional and business services, two common demand channels for engineers. That matters because the local evidence on scientific roles is thinner and the broad scientific occupational group is much smaller than the architecture and engineering group in Kansas City: about 8,740 workers versus 21,440 in 2025. The local skill mix also tilts toward AutoCAD, Revit, MicroStation, SolidWorks, and project management, which points more toward design, infrastructure, and product-delivery work than lab-heavy research hiring.

Which employers are hiring the most Engineering & Scientific talent in Kansas City, MO-KS?

Recent postings show the most activity from Burns & McDonnell (20 postings), Black & Veatch Corporation (20 postings), Deloitte (20 postings), Garmin (15 postings), GBA Team (10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Engineering & Scientific roles in Kansas City, MO-KS be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 20% hybrid, with 75% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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