Process Engineer
Perdue Farms
Chesapeake, VA · $89k–$133k a year · Posted October 26, 2026
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Where Chesapeake, VA ranks
Where Chesapeake, VA placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #3Cities where the biggest share of jobs do not need a four-year degree in the Southeast26% · of 69
- #3Best cities for junior jobs in Virginia43% · of 26
- #4Best college towns for junior jobs in the Mid-Atlantic45% · of 55
- #4Cities where the biggest share of jobs do not need a four-year degree in the Mid-Atlantic26% · of 53
- #4Best cities for junior jobs in the Mid-Atlantic43% · of 85
- #7Best college towns for junior jobs in the Southeast45% · of 64
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $111,000 a year. Across 280 open process engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $87,000 to $112,500 and the median is $98,000. That is inside the middle half of those listings, 13% above the median.
Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
How AI is used in this kind of work
AI use among industrial engineers is little observed so far. Measured exposure for industrial engineers: 4% (little observed).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
Perdue AgriBusiness is an international agricultural products and services company that handles agricultural commodities and a diverse portfolio of products and businesses. It is part of Perdue Farms,