Chelmsford, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Senior Director, Frontline Experience TrainingFirst Tech Federal Credit Union
- Sales Development RepresentativeBAO
- Test EngineerHeico
- Store Operations ManagerCubeSmart
- Feeder Payroll/Dispatch SupervisorUPS
- Assistant Property ManagerWillow Bridge Property Company
- System Integration Test EngineerButler
- RF Engineer - 2nd ShiftButler
- RF Engineer - Weekend ShiftButler
- Project Manager - HVAC ControlsAlbireo Energy
Employers hiring most in Chelmsford
- Skyworks Solutions5 open roles
- Teleflex5 open roles
- Brooks-tlc Hospital System3 open roles
- Butler3 open roles
- Lockheed Martin3 open roles
- Albireo Energy2 open roles
- Brooks Automation2 open roles
- First Tech Federal Credit Union2 open roles
- HNTB2 open roles
- Sikorsky Aircraft2 open roles
Chelmsford layoffs
No layoff notices naming Chelmsford 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.
Where Chelmsford ranks
Where Chelmsford placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #21Best cities for software and engineering jobs in New England36 openings · of 24
Middlesex 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 2.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.8%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+8,939 jobs), management of companies (+5,973 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−18,366 jobs), admin & staffing (−7,990 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Chelmsford. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Iconic Cambridge dive bar not reopening after closing over severe water damageYahoo · Nov 6, 2026
- Cambridge Common, Café Barada will closeCambridge Day · Nov 1, 2026
- Former Wachusett Potato Chip factory in Fitchburg to close in DecemberWorcester Telegram on MSN · Oct 28, 2026
- Fitchburg's Former Wachusett Chip Plant Closing, 62 Jobs Lost by DecemberHoodline · Oct 28, 2026
- Kempner hosts Mass AI Hub grant award celebrationHarvard Gazette · Oct 27, 2026
- Lowell data center splits a Massachusetts mill townYahoo · Oct 26, 2026
- Cambridge to lay off 60 workersSoutheast Iowa Union · Oct 19, 2026
- Fairfield’s Cambridge Investment Research Notifies State of Layoffs, Company Cites Organizational RestructuringOttumwa Radio · Oct 16, 2026
Learn and get funded in Chelmsford
- 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 Chelmsford. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Massachusetts? How to file for unemployment in Massachusetts (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- MassHire Greater Lowell Workforce Board
Towns: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford
- MassHire North Central Workforce Board
Towns: Ashburnham, Ashby, Ayer, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Groton, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Princeton, Shirley, Sterling, Templeton, Townsend, Westminster, Winchendon
- Metro North Regional Employment Board
Towns: Arlington, Belmont, Burlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Revere, Somerville, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn
- Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.
Towns: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Boxborough, Brookline, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham
Middlesex County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
932,913
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,622,896
people in Middlesex County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$126,779
median household income
Source: Census ACS
61%
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 Massachusetts’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. Massachusetts unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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