900+ Manufacturing & Construction Jobs in Dallas, TX

Direct local pay data shows broad compensation growth rather than role-specific wages: Dallas compensation costs rose 2.7% and wages and salaries rose 2.5% over the year ended June 2026. In the local posting sample, annual salary ranges center on about $83k to $120k, while hourly-paid postings center on about $23 to $30 / hour. Texas statewide mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation family was ~$62,116 in July 2026 per Revelio Public Labor Statistics (n=1,963), versus ~$78,561 across all Texas occupations, so this category usually pays solidly but not uniformly at the top of the market.

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Advertised pay

Across the 379 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $43,680 at the 25th percentile, $52,530 at the median and $69,170 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Dallas-Fort Worth is a balanced market right now: local mining, logging, and construction employment is up 2.4% year over year, but metro manufacturing employment sits at 313.3 thousand and is down 0.8%. Texas statewide openings for this occupation family are up 13.0% year over year while employment is down 0.7%, which suggests employers are still posting roles but screening harder for fit. The metro unemployment rate was 4.7% in June 2026, up 17.5000% year over year, so the market is workable for experienced candidates but less forgiving for unfocused applicants.

Best positioned: Licensed or clearly hands-on candidates who can work on-site and show project management, troubleshooting, safety compliance, or blueprint-reading skills have the best odds.

Main caution: Do not treat this as one uniform market: about 60% of sampled postings are in construction, while manufacturing is only about 10%, so generic production applications will miss where the volume is.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 904 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Cbre: 18 open roles
2. Gaines Investment Trust: 16 open roles
3. RPM Living: 16 open roles
4. CBRE, Inc.: 15 open roles
5. Golden State Foods: 13 open roles
6. CAF Management, LLC: 12 open roles
7. CBRE, Inc.: 10 open roles
8. Walmart Inc.: 10 open roles
9. Asset Living: 9 open roles
10. Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc.: 9 open roles

Where the openings are

• Dallas: 227
• Fort Worth: 152
• Arlington: 52
• Plano: 41
• Grand Prairie: 37
• Irving: 36
• Garland: 28
• McKinney: 24

Work arrangement

on-site 880 (100%), hybrid 2 (0%), remote 2 (0%)

Where the demand is

Most of the real volume is on the construction side, not the factory side. In the local posting sample, construction accounts for about 60% of category postings, versus about 10% each for real estate and manufacturing, with engineering and energy smaller still. That lines up with Dallas-Fort Worth's large specialty-trade base: the metro had 152.6 thousand employees in specialty trade contractors in 2025, a strong proxy for electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, and related field roles. The best white-collar-leaning opportunities inside this family are attached to contractors and infrastructure-oriented firms rather than standalone plants. The most consistently active employers include Jacobs Engineering Group, Kiewit, Austin Industries, Inc., WSP Global Inc., MasTec, Inc., Kimley Horn, Burns & McDonnell, and CEC Facilities Group, and the employer mix is fragmented rather than winner-take-all. That is good for job seekers because you are not dependent on one mega-employer, but it also means you need a targeted company list instead of a one-employer strategy. Factory hiring exists, especially around Fort Worth's AllianceTexas corridor, but it looks more selective. Manufacturing is only about 10% of the sampled posting mix, metro manufacturing employment is down 0.8% year over year, and Hillwood says MTU Maintenance and Foxlink are opening facilities expected to add roughly 2,100 jobs, with Foxlink using AI-driven robotics and automation. In practice, that favors maintenance, MRO, controls-adjacent, and line-support candidates over generic assembler profiles.

• Specialty trade contractors and site work (high): This is the deepest pool of practical openings, supported by 152.6 thousand local specialty-trade-contractor employees and a posting mix where construction accounts for about 60% of the category.
• Project-led infrastructure and construction management (high): This lane is strongest for candidates who can show project management, blueprint reading, safety compliance, and budget ownership, and it is reinforced by repeated openings from firms such as Jacobs, Kiewit, Austin Industries, WSP Global, MasTec, and Burns & McDonnell.
• Manufacturing maintenance and automation support (moderate): This is a narrower but real opportunity set: manufacturing is about 10% of sampled postings, metro manufacturing employment is down 0.8% year over year, and new AllianceTexas facilities are pointing toward maintenance and automation support rather than broad low-skill expansion.

Where to focus: If you can choose, bias your search toward on-site construction and specialty-trade roles with clear safety, blueprint, and troubleshooting requirements; that is where Dallas-Fort Worth volume is thickest.

Roles worth searching next

• Project coordinator: It uses the same project management, budget, and office workflow signals that show up in local postings, but with less dependence on trade-specific licensing.
• Facilities coordinator: Real estate accounts for about 10% of the local posting mix, so building operations and vendor coordination can be a practical side door for people with field experience.
• Supply chain or materials coordinator: Industrial and project work still needs materials flow, and candidates with site or plant knowledge can often move into coordination roles more easily than into pure office jobs.
• Quality assurance coordinator: Quality control shows up in local skill demand, and new automated manufacturing environments reward process discipline and documentation.

What postings ask for

• Valid driver's license (table_stakes | immediate): It is one of the few credentials explicitly called out in local postings and matters most for field-based travel between sites. Who: Entry-level trades, installers, service techs, and career switchers.
• Troubleshooting (differentiator | immediate): Troubleshooting shows up in about 10% of local postings, and it becomes more valuable where maintenance and automated manufacturing lines are expanding. Who: Maintenance techs, field-service candidates, production-support workers, and switchers with mechanical aptitude.
• Safety compliance (table_stakes | immediate): Safety compliance appears in about 10% of local postings, and that matters in a market where about 90% of roles are on-site. Who: Everyone in construction, field service, maintenance, and plant-side work.
• Blueprint reading (differentiator | near-term): Blueprint reading appears in about 10% of local postings and helps bridge hands-on candidates into higher-trust construction and industrial work. Who: Tradespeople, assemblers, maintenance candidates, and career switchers with technical backgrounds.
• Project management (premium | immediate): Project management is the most-requested hard skill in the local posting sample at about 20%, making it one of the clearest separators for better-paid and supervisory roles. Who: Mid-career applicants, foremen, construction managers, and field leads.
• Budget management (premium | near-term): Budget management appears less often, at about 5% of local postings, but it is tied to leadership trust and the upper end of project-led roles. Who: Crew leads, supervisors, estimators moving sideways, and mid-career applicants chasing salary growth.

Questions about this market

What do Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

Direct local pay data shows broad compensation growth rather than role-specific wages: Dallas compensation costs rose 2.7% and wages and salaries rose 2.5% over the year ended June 2026. In the local posting sample, annual salary ranges center on about $83k to $120k, while hourly-paid postings center on about $23 to $30 / hour. Texas statewide mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation family was ~$62,116 in July 2026 per Revelio Public Labor Statistics (n=1,963), versus ~$78,561 across all Texas occupations, so this category usually pays solidly but not uniformly at the top of the market. This is a split market: manager, engineer-linked, and project-led construction roles pull the annual figures up, while hands-on trades and production roles are often better read from the hourly band.

Where is demand for Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX concentrated?

Most of the real volume is on the construction side, not the factory side. In the local posting sample, construction accounts for about 60% of category postings, versus about 10% each for real estate and manufacturing, with engineering and energy smaller still. That lines up with Dallas-Fort Worth's large specialty-trade base: the metro had 152.6 thousand employees in specialty trade contractors in 2025, a strong proxy for electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, and related field roles. The best white-collar-leaning opportunities inside this family are attached to contractors and infrastructure-oriented firms rather than standalone plants. The most consistently active employers include Jacobs Engineering Group, Kiewit, Austin Industries, Inc., WSP Global Inc., MasTec, Inc., Kimley Horn, Burns & McDonnell, and CEC Facilities Group, and the employer mix is fragmented rather than winner-take-all. That is good for job seekers because you are not dependent on one mega-employer, but it also means you need a targeted company list instead of a one-employer strategy. Factory hiring exists, especially around Fort Worth's AllianceTexas corridor, but it looks more selective. Manufacturing is only about 10% of the sampled posting mix, metro manufacturing employment is down 0.8% year over year, and Hillwood says MTU Maintenance and Foxlink are opening facilities expected to add roughly 2,100 jobs, with Foxlink using AI-driven robotics and automation. In practice, that favors maintenance, MRO, controls-adjacent, and line-support candidates over generic assembler profiles.

Which employers are hiring the most Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services talent in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from Jacobs Engineering Group (100 postings), Kiewit (75 postings), Austin Industries, Inc. (75 postings), WSP Global Inc. (75 postings), MasTec, Inc. (50 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 90% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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