Middlebury, IN jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Quality Manager - Ready to EatMeijer
- Plant ManagerLippert (LCI Industries)
- Inventory Team LeaderLippert (LCI Industries)
- Line BuyerWinnebago Industries
- Quality & Compliance Systems SpecialistWinnebago Industries
- Electrical EngineerWinnebago Industries
- Quality EngineerActalent
- Supplier Quality EngineerGrand Design RV
- Industrial EngineerAvero
- CNC Manufacturing EngineerAvero
Employers hiring most in Middlebury
- Avero6 open roles
- Winnebago Industries3 open roles
- Lippert (LCI Industries)2 open roles
- Actalent1 open role
- Champion Homes1 open role
- Grand Design RV1 open role
- Meijer1 open role
Middlebury layoffs
No layoff notices naming Middlebury 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.
Elkhart 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 down 11.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.9% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.8%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+689 jobs), construction (+445 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−14,743 jobs), admin & staffing (−943 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Middlebury. Each link goes to the publisher.
- This downtown South Bend street is expected to be closed for nearly a monthWNDU on MSN · Oct 9, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Indiana? How to file for unemployment in Indiana (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Northern Indiana Workforce Development Board (NIWB), Inc
Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, St. Joseph
Elkhart County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.6% the month before
99,645
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
206,868
people in Elkhart County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$65,617
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
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 Indiana’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. Indiana unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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