Harvard, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Harvard

• Vice President of ManufacturingCommonwealth Fusion Systems
• Head of Power OriginationCommonwealth Fusion Systems
• Director, Supply ChainCommonwealth Fusion Systems
• Principal Electrical Engineer Defense ElectronicsQinetiQ US (formerly Avantus Federal)
• Quality Systems EngineerVulcanForms
• GMP Compliance Manager (Devens, MA)The Facilities Group
• Procurement & Contracts ManagerAdams and Associates
• Strategic Recruiter, G&A & GTM (Hybrid/Remote)VulcanForms
• Hardware Engineer IV2X
• Head of OriginationCommonwealth Fusion Systems

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Employers hiring most in Harvard

1. Commonwealth Fusion Systems4 open roles
2. VulcanForms2 open roles
3. Adams and Associates1 open role
4. Commonwealth-Fusion-Systems-51 open role
5. QinetiQ US (formerly Avantus Federal)1 open role
6. The Facilities Group1 open role
7. V2X1 open role

Harvard layoffs

No layoff notices naming Harvard 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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Worcester County outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 0.9% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 3.7% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.2%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,234 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+2,771 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,458 jobs), management of companies (−1,143 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Harvard. Each link goes to the publisher.

• 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

Learn and get funded in Harvard

• 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 Harvard. 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 Central Region Workforce Board

  Towns: Auburn, Blackstone, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Grafton, Hardwick, Holden, Hopedale, Leicester, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northborough, Northbridge, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Rutland, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield, Westborough, Worcester

• MassHire Franklin Hampshire Workforce Board

  Towns: Amherst, Ashfield, Athol, Belchertown, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Chesterfield, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Deerfield, Easthampton, Erving, Gill, Goshen, Granby, Greenfield, Hadley, Hatfield, Hawley, Heath, Huntington, Leverett, Leyden, Middlefield, Monroe, Montague, New Salem, Northampton, Northfield, Orange, Pelham, Petersham, Phillipston, Plainfield, Rowe, Royalston, Shelburne, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Southampton, Sunderland, Ware, Warwick, Wendell, Westhampton, Whately, Williamsburg, Worthington

• 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 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

Worcester County economy

• 4.2%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.5% the month before

• 470,233

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 861,664

  people in Worcester County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $93,561

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 46%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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