Fort Smith, AR jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Fort Smith

• Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Clinical Director - Fort Smith, ARBlue Sprig
• Pharmacy DirectorEncompass Health
• Junior Frontend Engineer: Learn, Build, Ship FeaturesByteForge Labs
• Controls Engineer III - ProcessRheem
• Process Engineer IIRheem
• Warranty Claims Representative IIRheem
• Human Resources Generalist IIRheem
• Senior Project Manager - FederalGilbane
• Membership Sales Manager - Fort Smith, TexasGlobal Medical Response
• Director, Maintenance & EngineeringPernod Ricard USA

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Employers hiring most in Fort Smith

1. Air National Guard Units5 open roles
2. Rheem4 open roles
3. Pernod Ricard USA3 open roles
4. Trane U.s.3 open roles
5. Owens Corning2 open roles
6. Rheem Manufacturing2 open roles
7. Summit Utilities2 open roles
8. Trane Technologies2 open roles
9. USTBC ABB Installation Products2 open roles
10. Walther Manufacturing2 open roles

Fort Smith layoffs

No layoff notices naming Fort Smith in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Sebastian County outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 4.1% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,289 jobs), manufacturing (+935 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−566 jobs), management of companies (−314 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Fort Smith

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• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Fort Smith. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• Western Arkansas Workforce Development Area

  Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Polk, Scott, Sebastian

• Arkansas Workforce Center at Fort Smith

  Fort Smith · Comprehensive · 479-783-0231

  8-4:30 M-F

Sebastian County economy

• 3.6%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.1% the month before

• 60,441

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 128,448

  people in Sebastian County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $56,450

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 36%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS