Mechanic Falls, ME jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Senior Controls & Process EngineerIllinois Tool Works
- Business Unit ManagerIllinois Tool Works
- ControllerIllinois Tool Works
- Financial Analyst - HybridIllinois Tool Works
- R&D Engineer IIllinois Tool Works
Employers hiring most in Mechanic Falls
- Illinois Tool Works5 open roles
Mechanic Falls layoffs
No layoff notices naming Mechanic Falls 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.
Androscoggin 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 0.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 4.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.3%, unchanged from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,008 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−551 jobs), finance & insurance (−380 jobs)
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- Central Western Maine Workforce Development Board
Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset
Androscoggin County economy
3.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.3% the month before
55,605
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
112,323
people in Androscoggin County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$67,298
median household income
Source: Census ACS
37%
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 Maine’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. Maine unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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