Newburyport, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Newburyport

• Regional Sales Manager NortheastMersen USA GS
• Senior Quality ManagerMersen USA GS
• Manufacturing Engineer II (E2)Applied Materials
• Industrial EngineerApplied Materials
• Director, Facilities and Plant OperationsBeth Israel Lahey Health
• Account Executive– Labels & Flex Packaging (Experience required)Inovar
• Junior Commercial Credit Analyst - Risk & UnderwritingRiver Run Services
• Senior Operations Business AnalystVulcanForms
• Field Applications Engineer (Northeast)Mersen USA GS
• Accounting Manufacturing Cost and Inventory AnalystMersen USA GS

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Employers hiring most in Newburyport

1. Mersen USA GS6 open roles
2. Applied Materials2 open roles
3. Beth Israel Lahey Health1 open role
4. Inovar1 open role
5. Manpower1 open role
6. Mpac Group1 open role
7. Pursuit Aerospace1 open role
8. River Run Services1 open role
9. Safeway1 open role
10. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service1 open role

Newburyport layoffs

No layoff notices naming Newburyport 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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Essex 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 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.3% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.3%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,381 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+5,332 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,564 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,314 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Italian food company Buitoni consolidates operations in Lawrence, closing Virginia plantThe Business Journals · Nov 11, 2026

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Workforce development and job centers

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Essex County economy

• 4.3%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.5% the month before

• 439,969

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 807,258

  people in Essex County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $99,431

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 46%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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