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How Powell Industries hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Powell Industries scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Powell Industries is a Houston-based manufacturer of custom-engineered electrical power distribution and control equipment, including ANSI and IEC metal-clad and metal-enclosed switchgear, circuit breakers, DC switchgear, power rectifiers and integrated electrical houses. Founded in 1947 as a metal-working shop serving Houston petrochemical plants, it serves oil and gas, petrochemical, utility, transit and commercial markets, with plants and service centers in the US, in Canada through Powell Canada, and in the UK. It hires mechanical and electrical assemblers, painters, fabrication machine operators, electrical engineers, field service technicians and supervisors.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Powell Industries over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
69/100
Cloud & platforms
Windows47%
Developer tools
AutoCAD40%
Microsoft Excel7%
Practices & domains
TCP/IP7%
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
94
11 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
40 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Field & Service
56% ▼
Industrial Engineering
22% ▼
Hardware
9% ▲
Administrative
4% ▲
Management
3%
Finance
2% ▲
Actively hiring for Field & Service (+30 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+11 jobs in a week Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
9
Countries
3
Busiest office
Houston
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Houston United States
HQ
48 open roles 41 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Hardware
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
North Canton United States
Plant / site
17 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 12% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Hardware, Industrial Engineering
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Northlake United States
Plant / site
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Kansas City United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Phoenix United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
seen since Jan 2026 job postings
Edmonton Canada
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Early Careers
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Montreal Canada
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Bristol United Kingdom
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Bradford United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $99k – $194k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
TCP/IP
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