Highlands Ranch, CO jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Branch Manager - Highlands RanchPNC Financial Services Group
- Program Management Sr Manager - L6Lockheed Martin Services
- Electro-Optical Engineer StaffLockheed Martin Services
- Systems Engineering ManagerLockheed Martin Services
- Software Engineer - E2Lockheed Martin Services
- Electro Mechanical Engineer level 2Lockheed Martin Services
- Software Engineer Sr - E3Lockheed Martin Services
- Electronics Systems Architect Mgr - L5Lockheed Martin
- Data Engineer SrLockheed Martin Services
- GN&C Subsystem Manager, Orion ProgramLockheed Martin
Employers hiring most in Highlands Ranch
- Sikorsky Aircraft9 open roles
- Lockheed Martin Services8 open roles
- Arcadis7 open roles
- Lockheed Martin Services5 open roles
- Lockheed Martin4 open roles
- Sikorsky Aircraft4 open roles
- Lockheed Martin2 open roles
- Lockheed Martin2 open roles
- Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
- Erickson Senior Living1 open role
Highlands Ranch layoffs
No layoff notices naming Highlands Ranch 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.
Douglas 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 5.0% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 10.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.0%, up 0.4 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,513 jobs), professional & technical (+1,571 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−606 jobs), admin & staffing (−426 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Highlands Ranch. Each link goes to the publisher.
- 'Won't be empty long.' Jerzee's closing downtown Canton | ExclusiveCanton Repository on MSN · Oct 7, 2026
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- Arapahoe/Douglas Workforce Development Board
Arapahoe, Douglas
Douglas County economy
4.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.6% the month before
222,728
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
368,283
people in Douglas County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$145,737
median household income
Source: Census ACS
58%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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