Portage, IN jobs, layoffs and employers

10 open professional jobs in Portage. Portage is in Porter County.

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Jobs in Portage

Inside Sales RepresentativeReliance
Inside Sales RepresentativePhoenix Metals
Logistics Coordinator: Streamline Shipments & CostsLeeco Steel
Accounting ManagerE Tech Group
Business Development ManagerE Tech Group
Project Controls SpecialistE Tech Group
Electrical Controls Engineer (Off-shift)E Tech Group
General ManagerApplied Industrial Technologies
Plus One Dairy Frozen Team LeaderMeijer
Plus One Grocery Team LeaderMeijer

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Employers hiring most in Portage

E Tech Group4 open roles
Meijer2 open roles
Applied Industrial Technologies1 open role
Leeco Steel1 open role
Phoenix Metals1 open role
Reliance1 open role

Portage layoffs

No layoff notices naming Portage 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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Porter 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 4.6% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 1.6% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.9%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+963 jobs), professional & technical (+918 jobs)

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Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

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

Laid off in Indiana? How to file for unemployment in Indiana (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

Northwest Indiana Workforce Board
Jasper, La Porte, Lake, Newton, Porter, Pulaski, Starke

WorkOne Portage
Portage · Affiliate · 219-762-6592
Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Porter County economy

3.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.7% the month before
89,874
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
174,150
people in Porter County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$85,828
median household income
Source: Census ACS
39%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: 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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