200+ Manufacturing & Construction Jobs in Tampa, FL

Observed local government wages are more grounded than the broadest posting ranges. The Tampa area's mean wage was $26.69/hour for construction and extraction occupations and $27.57/hour for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations as of May 2025, while hourly-paid postings in this category center on about $23 to $30 / hour. Broader posted salary ranges center on about $75k to $118k because this category also includes salaried supervisors, project managers, and field engineers.

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Advertised pay

Across the 115 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $43,680 at the 25th percentile, $47,840 at the median and $62,400 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 7, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Tampa is still a viable market for Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services, but it is no longer an easy one. Local construction employment stood at 99.4 thousand in June 2026 and manufacturing employment at 74.7 thousand, with both sectors still slightly above last year at +0.7092% and +0.4032% respectively. The catch is competition: the metro unemployment rate was 4.7% in June 2026, the unemployment level was up 18.3143% year over year, and Florida-wide occupation signals were softer, with employment down 1.0% and active postings down 1.7% year over year for this field.

Best positioned: Licensed or already field-ready candidates who can work on-site, drive to jobsites, and show real troubleshooting, blueprint reading, safety compliance, or project management experience have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not treat the broad posted salary band as a typical trades paycheck; it mixes hourly craft roles with higher-paid supervisors, project managers, and field engineers.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 219 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Chromalloy: 9 open roles
2. Baycare: 6 open roles
3. BayCare Health System: 5 open roles
4. Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC: 5 open roles
5. Bell Partners, Inc.: 4 open roles
6. Camden Property Trust: 4 open roles
7. Jabil Inc.: 4 open roles
8. Richman Property Services, Inc.: 4 open roles
9. ZRS Management, LLC: 4 open roles
10. Cdmsmith: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Tampa: 99
• Clearwater: 29
• St. Petersburg: 15
• Largo: 10
• Land O' Lakes: 6
• Plant City: 6
• Oldsmar: 6
• Riverview: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 211 (98%), hybrid 2 (1%), remote 2 (1%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in construction-led employers, not in pure manufacturing plants. In the local posting sample, about 65% of openings sit in construction, with smaller pockets in real estate and engineering at about 10% each, and only about 5% in manufacturing plus about 5% in civil engineering. That lines up with the metro's larger construction base of 99.4 thousand jobs versus 74.7 thousand in manufacturing. The employer base is broad rather than dominated by one firm. The most consistently active named employers over the last 90 days included Power Design Inc., Jacobs Engineering Group, AECOM Corporation, and WSP Global Inc., while the overall hiring pattern remained fragmented across employers. That makes this a market where a targeted employer list and discipline-specific resume usually beats a wait-and-see approach. Opportunity also skews toward field-ready and mid-career candidates. About 55% of sampled openings are mid-level, about 30% are entry-level, and about 90% are on-site, so candidates who can show immediate jobsite usefulness have a clearer path than people searching for remote or highly generalized roles.

• Construction and MEP execution (high): Best fit for candidates with project management, blueprint reading, plumbing, and safety compliance skills in a market where construction accounts for about 65% of postings.
• Maintenance and field service (high): A good target for candidates who can travel, troubleshoot, and work on-site, especially when a valid driver's license is easy to verify.
• Manufacturing and quality roles (moderate): Still present, but a smaller slice locally; manufacturing is about 5% of the posting mix, so quality control and process-adjacent experience help more than a broad factory-only search.

Where to focus: Start with on-site construction, maintenance, and project-support employers, then use manufacturing as a secondary lane rather than your only bet.

Roles worth searching next

• Facilities coordinator: Real estate represents about 10% of the local posting mix, and the same market asks for troubleshooting, safety compliance, and Microsoft Office skills.
• Project coordinator: Project management, blueprint reading, Microsoft Office, and AutoCAD all appear in the local skill mix, which makes this a realistic office-field bridge role.
• Quality inspector or QA technician: Manufacturing is a smaller local slice, but quality control is still a requested skill and creates a cleaner pivot than waiting only for broad factory openings.
• Field operations dispatcher: The market is heavily on-site, values driver's-license readiness, and frequently asks for troubleshooting context plus Microsoft Office, all of which transfer into dispatch and routing roles.

What postings ask for

• Valid driver's license (table_stakes | immediate): It is the clearest explicit credential signal in the local sample and helps screen for jobsite travel, service calls, and multi-site reliability. Who: Anyone targeting field service, maintenance, installation, or helper roles.
• Project management (premium | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in the local sample at about 20%, and it lines up with the better-paid supervisor and project-role slice of the market. Who: Mid-career tradespeople, foremen, coordinators, and construction managers.
• Troubleshooting (differentiator | immediate): It shows up across maintenance and field-service work and helps candidates prove they can solve problems with limited supervision. Who: Maintenance techs, HVAC candidates, field service applicants, and career switchers with repair experience.
• Blueprint reading (table_stakes | immediate): Blueprint reading is a recurring requirement in the local sample and is one of the fastest ways to separate site-ready candidates from general labor applicants. Who: Construction, MEP, fabrication, and project-support candidates.
• Safety compliance (table_stakes | immediate): Safety compliance appears repeatedly in the local skill mix and matters more in a market where most work is on-site. Who: All candidates in this category, especially anyone moving between employers.
• AutoCAD (differentiator | near-term): AutoCAD appears in the local skills mix and helps candidates move toward engineering-adjacent, drafting, or project-coordination work. Who: Career switchers, drafters, estimators, and tradespeople moving toward office-field hybrid roles.

Questions about this market

What do Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles pay in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL?

Observed local government wages are more grounded than the broadest posting ranges. The Tampa area's mean wage was $26.69/hour for construction and extraction occupations and $27.57/hour for installation, maintenance, and repair occupations as of May 2025, while hourly-paid postings in this category center on about $23 to $30 / hour. Broader posted salary ranges center on about $75k to $118k because this category also includes salaried supervisors, project managers, and field engineers. This is solid working pay, not automatic top-tier pay. That matters because a Hillsborough County family survival budget was reported at $108,840/year, so many single-role trades jobs can feel decent while still not stretching as far as job seekers expect.

Where is demand for Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in construction-led employers, not in pure manufacturing plants. In the local posting sample, about 65% of openings sit in construction, with smaller pockets in real estate and engineering at about 10% each, and only about 5% in manufacturing plus about 5% in civil engineering. That lines up with the metro's larger construction base of 99.4 thousand jobs versus 74.7 thousand in manufacturing. The employer base is broad rather than dominated by one firm. The most consistently active named employers over the last 90 days included Power Design Inc., Jacobs Engineering Group, AECOM Corporation, and WSP Global Inc., while the overall hiring pattern remained fragmented across employers. That makes this a market where a targeted employer list and discipline-specific resume usually beats a wait-and-see approach. Opportunity also skews toward field-ready and mid-career candidates. About 55% of sampled openings are mid-level, about 30% are entry-level, and about 90% are on-site, so candidates who can show immediate jobsite usefulness have a clearer path than people searching for remote or highly generalized roles.

Which employers are hiring the most Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services talent in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL?

Recent postings show the most activity from Power Design Inc. (75 postings), Jacobs Engineering Group (30 postings), AECOM Corporation (30 postings), WSP Global Inc. (30 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Manufacturing, Construction & Field Services roles in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 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.

How current are these listings?

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