Albert Lea, MN jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Albert Lea

• Senior Technical Learning Specialist (Bi-Lingual) [Hybrid]EDF power solutions
• Quality Assurance ManagerSearch Solution Elite
• Quality Assurance ManagerVeracity Ventures
• Quality Assurance ManagerMacpower Digital Assets Edge Private
• Quality Assurance ManagerIntegrated personnel
• Quality EngineerLou Rich
• HR - Recruiter Lv2Omni Inclusive
• Banking RecruiterGPAC
• Group LeadCargill

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Employers hiring most in Albert Lea

1. Cargill1 open role
2. EDF power solutions1 open role
3. GPAC1 open role
4. Integrated personnel1 open role
5. Lou Rich1 open role
6. Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private1 open role
7. Omni Inclusive1 open role
8. Search Solution Elite1 open role
9. Veracity Ventures1 open role

Albert Lea layoffs

No layoff notices naming Albert Lea 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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Freeborn County outlook: Cooling

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

• Private-sector jobs up 0.1% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 1.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.3%, up 0.9 points from a year ago

Local job-market news

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

• A number of Goodyear employees to be laid offAudacy on MSN · Oct 29, 2026

Learn and get funded in Albert Lea

• 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 Albert Lea. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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

• Workforce Development Board of Southeast Minnesota

  Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha

• CareerForce in Albert Lea

  Albert Lea · Affiliate · 507-821-1010

  8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Monday – Friday (Friday’s By Appointment Only)

Freeborn County economy

• 4.3%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.4% the month before

• 15,537

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 30,752

  people in Freeborn County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $69,012

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 32%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS