Plant Operator jobs in Southampton

Live plant operator roles in Southampton, with South East salary benchmarks.

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9 live roles in Southampton

Night Plant Operative

Southampton

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Hybrid Engineering
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Telehandler

SO17, Portswood, Southampton

£20/hour

Telehandler Operator – Southampton, SO17 1BJ £20.00/hr | Monday–Friday | Long-term ongoing BMSL are currently recruiting an experienced Telehandler…

Construction Permanent
1 week ago Apply now

CPCS Traffic Marshall

SO17, Portswood, Southampton

£16.50/annum

CPCS Traffic Marshall – Southampton, SO17 1BJ £16.50/hr | Monday–Friday | Long-term ongoing BMSL are currently recruiting an experienced CPCS…

Construction Permanent
1 week ago Apply now

Plant Operator hiring in Southampton: the numbers

  • 9 live plant operator roles in Southampton right now.

Counted from the adverts on this board, refreshed hourly. Advertised pay is what employers state, not a market survey.

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Plant Operator salary in South East

£33,000 – £44,000 (indicative · midpoint £38,500)

How this figure was built. No live advertised salaries back this figure yet. It is the midpoint of our curated 2026 baseline range for the role and region.

Methodology: medians reconcile live advertised UK salaries for this role and region; 25th–75th percentiles are shown only where at least 5 live salaried listings back them. They are measured or omitted, never interpolated. Rows marked indicative are anchored to our curated 2026 baseline ranges until enough live data accrues. Listings advertising an implausible annual figure (a mislabelled hourly or daily rate) are excluded rather than converted, because converting one means guessing the hours behind it.

Market view. The ticket is the career: CPCS or NPORS categories determine what you can be booked for, and multi-ticket operators (telehandler + 360 + dumper) stay busiest. Infrastructure and rail possessions pay above general build, and long-shift weeks make real earnings strongly hours-driven.
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