Fountain Valley, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Senior Mechanical Engineer - WastewaterParsons
- Vice President of OperationsMotive Workforce Solutions
- Specialty Medical Director - Criticalist, Internist, - Open to All SpecialtiesVCA Animal Hospitals
- System Engineer Escalation Team Managed Services Bw7186Bowman Williams
- Corporate Legal SecretaryLHH
- Executive Director Epic Revenue Cycle ApplicationsMemorialCare Health System
- Executive Director Epic Clinical ApplicationsMemorialCare Health System
- Director of IT, Medical Group FoundationMemorialCare Health System
- Sr. Solution ArchitectMemorialCare Health System
- ParalegalMemorialCare Health System
Employers hiring most in Fountain Valley
- Hyundai Motor America29 open roles
- MemorialCare Health System16 open roles
- Motive Workforce Solutions3 open roles
- UC Irvine (incl. UCI Health)2 open roles
- Adecco Portugal1 open role
- Advanced Charging Technologies1 open role
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- Antagene1 open role
- Bowman Williams1 open role
- Citigroup1 open role
Fountain Valley layoffs
No layoff notices naming Fountain Valley 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.
Orange County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 1.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.3%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+30,241 jobs), arts & recreation (+9,954 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−17,259 jobs), finance & insurance (−9,879 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Fountain Valley. Each link goes to the publisher.
- The SAUSD is $187M in the hole, yet Santa Ana voters reelected their School Board TrusteesNew Santa Ana · Nov 11, 2026
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- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
- Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
- 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 Fountain Valley. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in California? How to file for unemployment in California (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Anaheim Workforce Development Board
City: Anaheim
- Orange County Workforce Development Board
Orange
- Santa Ana Workforce Development Board
City: Santa Ana
Orange County economy
4.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
1,615,890
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
3,164,063
people in Orange County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$113,702
median household income
Source: Census ACS
46%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from California’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. California unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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