150+ Manufacturing & Construction Jobs in Nashville, TN

Observed local pay is solid but not uniformly high. In Nashville, BLS reported May 2025 mean hourly pay of $31.42 for construction and extraction occupations and $30.44 for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations, while electricians had a local median hourly wage of $30.45. The broad BLS annual median was $55,630 for construction and extraction occupations and $58,440 for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations in the metro. Separate posting-based signals are higher: local posted salary ranges center on about $75k to $110k, with hourly-paid postings centering on about $25 to $33 per hour, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics put Tennessee's mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation family at about $60,163 in September 2026 from a sample of n=206.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 87 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $44,242 at the 25th percentile, $50,960 at the median and $62,400 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 16, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Nashville is still a workable market for manufacturing, construction, and field-service job seekers, but it is not an easy one. Metro unemployment was 3.1% in August 2026, total nonfarm employment was up 0.6541% year-over-year, and manufacturing employment was up 0.5669% year-over-year, but mining, logging, and construction employment was down 2.6706% year-over-year. Recent hiring is broad enough to search across a long employer list, with more than 950 postings across more than 500 companies in the last 90 days, yet contractors are specifically competing for electricians, HVAC/mechanical talent, controls specialists, and experienced field leaders.

Best positioned: Licensed electricians, HVAC/mechanical technicians, industrial maintenance techs, controls specialists, and experienced foremen or superintendents have the best odds right now because those skill areas are where competition is most visible.

Main caution: Do not read the posted salary center of about $75k to $110k as typical pay for every hands-on trade role; that range is pulled up by supervisory and project roles, while hourly postings center on about $25 to $33 and local BLS medians for the broad trade families sit in the mid-to-high $50k range annually.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 172 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. RPM Living: 7 open roles
2. Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC: 6 open roles
3. Loenbro: 5 open roles
4. Bridgestone Americas, Inc.: 4 open roles
5. Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.: 4 open roles
6. Lochinvar: 4 open roles
7. Elmington: 3 open roles
8. Nashville: 3 open roles
9. Smithfield Foods, Inc.: 3 open roles
10. Asset Living: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Nashville: 100
• Franklin: 19
• Smyrna: 11
• Goodlettsville: 6
• Gallatin: 5
• La Vergne: 4
• Hendersonville: 4
• Hermitage: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 168 (100%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated more narrowly than the category label suggests. In the local posting mix, construction accounts for about 50% of openings, real estate about 15%, manufacturing about 10%, hospitality about 5%, and facilities services about 5%. Hiring is also fragmented across employers rather than dominated by one name, with more than 500 companies represented in the recent sample. That means you should search across contractors, property operators, industrial employers, and owner-side facilities teams, not just general contractors. The named employers showing up repeatedly include Brasfield & Gorrie, Amazon, Elmington, Jacobs Engineering Group, Garney, Lithko Contracting, Comfort Systems USA, and RPM Living. Project signals support that view. Brasfield & Gorrie was selected for a 600-room East Bank hotel, Ferrovial announced commercial close on the 26-mile I-24 Southeast Choice Lanes project, and a September regional roundup reported progress on the Gaylord Opryland expansion. At the same time, ABC Greater Tennessee described hospital expansions, mixed-use commercial development, and data-center-related work as local demand drivers, while also warning that those same projects are intensifying competition for electricians, HVAC/mechanical talent, controls specialists, and experienced field leaders. The second pocket to watch is industrial maintenance and production support. Manufacturing is not surging, but local manufacturing employment was still up 0.5669% year-over-year in August 2026, which is better than the construction side of the market. If your background crosses over into preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, or equipment uptime, that is a useful hedge against the softer construction employment trend.

• Specialty construction and infrastructure (high): This is the hottest lane for licensed electrical, HVAC/mechanical, controls, civil/site, and field-lead talent, driven by overlap between data-center-related work and large commercial and infrastructure projects.
• Facilities and property operations (moderate): Real estate and facilities-related work form a meaningful second lane, supported by active employers such as Elmington and RPM Living and by the local posting mix outside pure construction.
• Manufacturing and industrial maintenance (moderate): Manufacturing is a smaller share of the local posting mix, but metro manufacturing employment is still slightly positive year-over-year, making maintenance, uptime, and production-support roles a practical fallback or hedge.

Where to focus: If you have trade credentials, focus first on electrical, HVAC/mechanical, controls, and industrial-maintenance openings tied to active contractors and large property or industrial operators, not generic laborer searches.

Roles worth searching next

• Facilities coordinator / property operations coordinator: This is a practical bridge for maintenance, HVAC, carpentry, and repair candidates because real estate and facilities-related employers are a visible part of the local hiring mix.
• Safety coordinator / EHS technician: The local market puts real weight on safety compliance, which makes this a sensible move for workers with strong site discipline and documentation habits.
• Project coordinator / assistant project manager: Construction management and project management both appear in local skill demand, so foremen, superintendents, and detail-oriented tradespeople can use this as a step off the tools.
• Quality technician / QA inspector: Blueprint reading and troubleshooting transfer well, and this path can make sense for candidates who want a more stable manufacturing-adjacent lane while local manufacturing holds up better than construction.

What postings ask for

• Safety compliance (table_stakes | immediate): Safety compliance is one of the most-requested hard skills locally, and employers nationally continue to report that many candidates are missing needed skills, certificates, or licenses. Who: Everyone, especially entry-level candidates who need a low-cost way to look job-ready.
• Troubleshooting (table_stakes | immediate): Troubleshooting shows up among the most-requested hard skills in local postings and is one of the clearest shared languages across maintenance, field service, and industrial roles. Who: Mid-career tradespeople, maintenance techs, and career switchers coming from repair-heavy work.
• Blueprint reading (table_stakes | immediate): Blueprint reading is another top local screening skill, which means it helps both construction candidates and those trying to bridge into adjacent quality or project-support work. Who: Entry-level applicants, helpers, apprentices, and career switchers.
• Preventative maintenance (differentiator | near-term): Preventative maintenance appears in the local skill mix and lines up well with the part of the market tied to manufacturing, facilities, and property operations. Who: Maintenance techs, field service candidates, and career switchers from warehouse or building operations backgrounds.
• Medium-voltage electrical work (premium | immediate): Contractors explicitly called out medium-voltage work as relevant to local data-center-related demand, and electrical talent is one of the areas where recruiting pressure is strongest. Who: Licensed electricians, apprentices nearing journeyman level, and foremen on power-intensive projects.
• Cooling/HVAC and controls integration (premium | immediate): Cooling systems, HVAC/mechanical work, and controls integration are directly tied to the local competition for hard-to-find specialty talent. Who: HVAC techs, BAS/controls workers, industrial maintenance techs, and field-service candidates.

Questions about this market

What do Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles pay in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

Observed local pay is solid but not uniformly high. In Nashville, BLS reported May 2025 mean hourly pay of $31.42 for construction and extraction occupations and $30.44 for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations, while electricians had a local median hourly wage of $30.45. The broad BLS annual median was $55,630 for construction and extraction occupations and $58,440 for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations in the metro. Separate posting-based signals are higher: local posted salary ranges center on about $75k to $110k, with hourly-paid postings centering on about $25 to $33 per hour, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics put Tennessee's mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation family at about $60,163 in September 2026 from a sample of n=206. Nashville pays reasonably for skilled trades, but the broad trade averages are only around the metro-wide all-occupation mean of $31.92 per hour if you move into licensed, supervisory, project, or specialty field work.

Where is demand for Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated more narrowly than the category label suggests. In the local posting mix, construction accounts for about 50% of openings, real estate about 15%, manufacturing about 10%, hospitality about 5%, and facilities services about 5%. Hiring is also fragmented across employers rather than dominated by one name, with more than 500 companies represented in the recent sample. That means you should search across contractors, property operators, industrial employers, and owner-side facilities teams, not just general contractors. The named employers showing up repeatedly include Brasfield & Gorrie, Amazon, Elmington, Jacobs Engineering Group, Garney, Lithko Contracting, Comfort Systems USA, and RPM Living. Project signals support that view. Brasfield & Gorrie was selected for a 600-room East Bank hotel, Ferrovial announced commercial close on the 26-mile I-24 Southeast Choice Lanes project, and a September regional roundup reported progress on the Gaylord Opryland expansion. At the same time, ABC Greater Tennessee described hospital expansions, mixed-use commercial development, and data-center-related work as local demand drivers, while also warning that those same projects are intensifying competition for electricians, HVAC/mechanical talent, controls specialists, and experienced field leaders. The second pocket to watch is industrial maintenance and production support. Manufacturing is not surging, but local manufacturing employment was still up 0.5669% year-over-year in August 2026, which is better than the construction side of the market. If your background crosses over into preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, or equipment uptime, that is a useful hedge against the softer construction employment trend.

Which employers are hiring the most Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services talent in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Brasfield & Gorrie, L.L.C. (20 postings), Amazon (20 postings), Elmington (15 postings), Jacobs Engineering Group (15 postings), Garney (15 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 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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