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title: "Machine Operator job postings: what employers ask for (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/machine-operator"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/postings/machine-operator
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Machine Operator job postings: what employers ask for (2026)

> Live machine operator job postings measured from JobsPipe's index: <0.5% remote, 25.1% disclose pay, seniority mix, top skills and the industries hiring. Shares only, reproducible through the API.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/machine-operator

This page reads every active posting whose normalized title is Machine Operator across the ten boards JobsPipe collects and reports what those employers ask for: the seniority they target, whether the role is remote, whether pay is disclosed, the skills named in the text, and the industries, countries and company sizes behind the postings.

<0.5% of these postings are marked remote, 25.1% state a salary or range, the most common seniority label is entry level at 25.7%. Postings with no seniority label are counted in the denominator, so the seniority shares do not sum to one.

## Headline shares

- **Remote:** <0.5%
- **Pay disclosed:** 25.1%

## Seniority stated in the posting

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Entry level | 25.7% |
| Mid level | 2.7% |
| Senior | 2.6% |

## Skills named in the text (top twelve)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| communication | 22.3% |
| attention-to-detail | 20.7% |
| teamwork | 15.1% |
| compliance | 15.1% |
| lean-manufacturing | 15.0% |
| forklift | 12.2% |
| quality-assurance | 10.9% |
| gmp | 10.3% |
| cnc | 10.0% |
| leadership | 8.6% |
| adaptability | 7.8% |
| compensation-and-benefits | 6.1% |

## Job function

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 63.5% |
| Management and Manufacturing | 29.9% |
| Engineering and Information Technology | 2.3% |
| Other | 1.7% |
| Production | 0.8% |
| Engineering | 0.6% |

## Employer industry (ISIC division)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Food manufacturing | 6.8% |
| Machinery | 6.5% |
| Chemicals | 4.3% |
| Metal products | 3.5% |
| Employment and staffing | 3.4% |
| Electrical equipment | 3.3% |
| Information services | 2.7% |
| Motor vehicles | 1.8% |

## Country

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 60.8% |
| Germany | 12.4% |
| Brazil | 10.2% |
| Netherlands | 4.3% |
| Canada | 2.5% |
| France | 1.9% |
| India | 1.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1.0% |

## Employer size, where known

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| 1-50 employees | 9.0% |
| 51-200 employees | 3.8% |
| 201-1000 employees | 7.1% |
| 1000+ employees | 25.9% |

## Employment type

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Full-time | 90.1% |
| Internship | 1.6% |

## Method

Denominator: active postings on the ten collected boards, grouped by canonical title (deduplicated by posting id). Counted on 2026-09-09. Postings are deduplicated by id, filtered to those not yet recorded as closed, and grouped on the field named in each heading. Only shares are published.

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["machine operator"]}'
```

## FAQ

### What share of machine operator job postings are remote?

<0.5% of the active postings on this page carry a remote flag. The flag is read from the posting itself, so hybrid roles that never say remote are counted as on-site. Filter the API with remote set to true and the same scope to reproduce the figure.

### How many machine operator postings disclose salary?

25.1% state a salary or a range in the posting text or structured fields. Disclosure varies more by board and by jurisdiction than by role, so compare the figure with the board-level shares on the sources pages before reading it as a market signal.

### Which skills appear most in machine operator postings?

The most named skills are communication (22.3%), attention-to-detail (20.7%), teamwork (15.1%), compliance (15.1%), lean-manufacturing (15.0%). Skills are extracted from the posting text against a curated lexicon, and a posting counts once per skill it names, so the shares overlap.

### Which industries hire the most machine operator roles?

By ISIC division, the largest shares are Food manufacturing (6.8%), Machinery (6.5%), Chemicals (4.3%). Industry is resolved from the employer's classification where known, and postings without a classification are excluded from this cut.

### Which functions are employers in Machine Operator hiring for?

The largest functions by share of postings are Manufacturing (63.5%), Management and Manufacturing (29.9%), Engineering and Information Technology (2.3%), Other (1.7%). Function is assigned from the normalized title and the posting text.

### Where do these numbers come from?

From JobsPipe's live index of postings on the ten boards it collects, deduplicated by posting id and counted on 2026-09-09. Only shares are published; the underlying counts stay private. Every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API with the filters shown on this page.

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