100+ Manufacturing & Construction Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Observed local BLS pay is moderate. In annual 2025 BLS data, construction and extraction occupations in Salt Lake City-Murray had a $60,150 median wage, a $47,850 25th percentile, and an $85,490 90th percentile; installation, maintenance, and repair occupations had a $60,820 median and a $94,790 90th percentile. In May 2025, those groups averaged $29.61 and $30.61 per hour respectively, versus $34.45 across all metro occupations. By contrast, the recent posted-pay sample centers on about $87k to $112k for salaried ads and about $24 to $29 / hour for hourly ads.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 68 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $45,474 at the 25th percentile, $57,148 at the median and $74,360 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 17, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Salt Lake City-Murray is still a workable market for manufacturing, construction, and field service work, but it is better for proven tradespeople than for true beginners. Metro unemployment was 3.7% in August 2026, total nonfarm employment was up 2.4869% year-over-year, manufacturing employment rose 2.3401%, and mining, logging, and construction rose 4.5752%. At the same time, Utah-wide postings for this occupation family were up 9.6% year-over-year in September 2026 even as statewide employment in the family was down 1.5%, which points to selective hiring, replacement hiring, and persistent hard-to-fill roles rather than a blanket boom.

Best positioned: Your best odds are if you already have a license or strong hands-on proof and can show blueprint reading, safety compliance, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, or project management, plus a driver's-license-ready profile; electricians in particular still have national scarcity signals.

Main caution: Do not assume the eye-catching posted salary bands are typical pay for all trade jobs: recent posted ranges center on about $87k to $112k, but BLS broad local medians for construction and installation/maintenance occupations sit near $60k.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 134 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Asset Living: 4 open roles
2. Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC: 3 open roles
3. Hunt Electric, Inc.: 3 open roles
4. Kelso Industries: 3 open roles
5. Peak Living: 3 open roles
6. Torus: 3 open roles
7. Vobev: 3 open roles
8. AFE: 2 open roles
9. Becton, Dickinson and Company: 2 open roles
10. Bhi, Co: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Salt Lake City: 77
• Sandy: 8
• Draper: 6
• West Valley City: 6
• Park City: 4
• South Jordan: 4
• Layton: 3
• Herriman: 3

Work arrangement

on-site 128 (98%), hybrid 2 (2%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is tilted toward construction-led work. In the recent metro posting sample, construction represented about 55% of category openings, compared with about 10% each for real estate and manufacturing and about 5% each for hospitality and facilities services. BLS also shows construction and extraction roles made up 5.6% of Salt Lake City-Murray employment in May 2025, above the 4.1% U.S. share, while installation, maintenance, and repair accounted for 3.7% of local employment. That does not mean one or two companies control the market. The sample captured more than 800 postings across more than 400 companies over the last 90 days, and employer concentration was fragmented. So the practical hunt is to target clusters of similar employers—general contractors, specialty subcontractors, building owners, facilities operators, and a smaller set of manufacturing plants—rather than waiting on a single flagship employer. Manufacturing is smaller in posting mix but still worth watching. Metro manufacturing employment reached 65.6 thousand in August 2026 and was up 2.3401% year-over-year, while Moog announced a local expansion expected to create more than 200 jobs and Stadler says its Salt Lake apprenticeship program includes 36 youth apprentices.

• Construction and specialty trades (high): Best volume right now. Construction is about 55% of the recent posting mix, and metro mining, logging, and construction employment was up 4.5752% year-over-year in August 2026.
• Facilities maintenance and field service (high): Good bridge for people with troubleshooting and preventive-maintenance experience. Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations are 3.7% of metro employment, and about 95% of the recent postings are on-site.
• Advanced manufacturing and production support (moderate): Smaller slice of openings than construction, but metro manufacturing employment reached 65.6 thousand and rose 2.3401% year-over-year, with local apprenticeship and expansion signals from Stadler and Moog.

Where to focus: If you need results in the next 30 to 90 days, start with on-site construction, maintenance, and service employers that ask for blueprint reading, safety compliance, troubleshooting, and preventive maintenance, then layer in manufacturing targets if you have production, controls, or quality experience.

Roles worth searching next

• Safety coordinator / EHS specialist: It lets a field-experienced worker move into compliance-heavy work without losing industry context.
• BIM coordinator / CAD drafter: It is a natural move for construction workers who understand drawings, sequencing, and field constraints.
• Quality inspector / QA technician: It keeps you close to manufacturing and installation work while emphasizing documentation and standards.
• Materials / procurement coordinator: This is a practical move for people who know jobsite materials, vendors, and sequencing.

What postings ask for

• Blueprint reading (table_stakes | immediate): It is one of the most-requested hard skills in local postings and signals that you can be productive on day one. Who: Entry-level applicants, apprentices, and career switchers.
• Safety compliance and OSHA training (differentiator | immediate): Safety compliance is among the most-requested local skills, and OSHA Safety Certificate is commonly valued for field-facing roles. Who: Anyone applying to construction, field service, or site-supervision tracks.
• Troubleshooting (differentiator | immediate): Troubleshooting is among the most-requested local skills and translates well across maintenance, field service, and production-support roles. Who: Mid-career tradespeople and switchers from auto, warehouse equipment, or military backgrounds.
• Preventive maintenance (differentiator | near-term): Preventive maintenance shows up in local demand and maps directly to facilities, manufacturing support, and equipment service work. Who: Maintenance techs, production techs, and switchers targeting stable building or plant work.
• Project management and digital project management (premium | near-term): Project management appears in local postings, and broader 2026 guidance flags digital project management as an in-demand construction skill. Who: Foremen, superintendents, estimators, coordinators, and tradespeople moving toward leadership.
• BIM and AutoCAD (premium | near-term): BIM and AutoCAD appear in broader demand signals for trade workers and matter most when you want better-paying coordination, estimating, or preconstruction-adjacent work. Who: Construction candidates who want to move off the tools part of the week without leaving the industry.

Questions about this market

What do Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles pay in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Observed local BLS pay is moderate. In annual 2025 BLS data, construction and extraction occupations in Salt Lake City-Murray had a $60,150 median wage, a $47,850 25th percentile, and an $85,490 90th percentile; installation, maintenance, and repair occupations had a $60,820 median and a $94,790 90th percentile. In May 2025, those groups averaged $29.61 and $30.61 per hour respectively, versus $34.45 across all metro occupations. By contrast, the recent posted-pay sample centers on about $87k to $112k for salaried ads and about $24 to $29 / hour for hourly ads. That mix usually means the metro supports decent blue-collar earnings, but the typical worker is not landing a six-figure offer. The higher posted ranges are likely being pulled up by supervisory, estimating, project, and specialized field-service roles.

Where is demand for Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT concentrated?

Real opportunity is tilted toward construction-led work. In the recent metro posting sample, construction represented about 55% of category openings, compared with about 10% each for real estate and manufacturing and about 5% each for hospitality and facilities services. BLS also shows construction and extraction roles made up 5.6% of Salt Lake City-Murray employment in May 2025, above the 4.1% U.S. share, while installation, maintenance, and repair accounted for 3.7% of local employment. That does not mean one or two companies control the market. The sample captured more than 800 postings across more than 400 companies over the last 90 days, and employer concentration was fragmented. So the practical hunt is to target clusters of similar employers—general contractors, specialty subcontractors, building owners, facilities operators, and a smaller set of manufacturing plants—rather than waiting on a single flagship employer. Manufacturing is smaller in posting mix but still worth watching. Metro manufacturing employment reached 65.6 thousand in August 2026 and was up 2.3401% year-over-year, while Moog announced a local expansion expected to create more than 200 jobs and Stadler says its Salt Lake apprenticeship program includes 36 youth apprentices.

Which employers are hiring the most Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services talent in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Recent postings show the most activity from RockBridge Search (more than 20 postings), UTN (around 20 postings), Live AMC (around 15 postings), Salt Lake City Corporation (around 10 postings), ARCO Design/Build, Inc. (around 10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

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