10/21/2026
Manufacturing has added 72,000 jobs since its December 2025 low. 9,000 of them came in September.
BLS, Employment Situation, 2 Oct 2026. Their data. Not a MARS number.
Hiring is coming back to the plant floor, and with it the harder search: the plant manager, the engineering lead, the operations director who has to be right the first time.
Those seats rarely fill from a job board. They fill from a network and a shortlist someone has actually vetted.
That is the work we do with manufacturers. And every so often, MARS Dispatch shares hiring and leadership intel built for plant and operations leaders.
Read the MARS Dispatch intro: https://www.marssg.com/blog/introducing-mars-dispatch-intel-for-manufacturing