Manufacturing Engineering Careers in Japan: What 368 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 368
- 87
- 37%
- 45%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
16
3-4 years of experience
55
5-9 years of experience
56
10+ years of experience
8
4%
18% day-to-day or above
Production Engineering
48%
Semiconductor
24%
CAD
20%
Data Analysis
18%
Project Management
18%
Quality Control
15%
Excel
14%
Production Management
13%
368 postings
Levels by Experience
1–4 years
4%
18% day-to-day or above
71 postings
5+ years
11%
25% day-to-day or above
64 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥6,800,000 · 166 postings state pay
¥5,900,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥7,700,000
Median ¥5,900,000 · 30 postings state pay
¥4,500,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥7,100,000
Working Conditions
- 122 days
81 postings
- 20 h
46 postings
- 28%
Fully remote
0
Hybrid
28
On-site
35
368 postings
What Comes Next
People management
14
Specialist track
9
Project management
5
Employers naming each step, of 17 that name one
Who Is Hiring
49
32
22
15
13
13
10
8
All Manufacturing Engineering openings
368 postings from 87 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Manufacturing Engineering career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Manufacturing Engineering job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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