Owatonna, MN jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Wellness/Activities DirectorBenedictine Living Communities
- Director of Sales and Marketing - FranchiseHilton Worldwide Holdings
- Business Development RepresentativeDoherty Staffing Solutions
- Production SupervisorLakeside Foods
- Production Manager - OVLakeside Foods
- Multi-Media Account ExecutiveTownsquare Media
- HR Representative/RecruiterCerenity Senior Care
- Commercial Account ManagerRollins
- Corporate Manufacturing Engineer-IIIDaikin U.S.
- Supplier Quality EngineerWenger
Employers hiring most in Owatonna
- Cintas3 open roles
- Fleet Farm3 open roles
- Lakeside Foods2 open roles
- Benedictine Living Communities1 open role
- Cerenity Senior Care1 open role
- Daikin U.S.1 open role
- Doherty Staffing Solutions1 open role
- Duraco Specialty Tapes and Liners – A Duraco Specialty Mater...1 open role
- High Bar Brands1 open role
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings1 open role
Owatonna layoffs
No layoff notices naming Owatonna 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.
Steele 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 0.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 5.1%, up 1.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−359 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Owatonna. Each link goes to the publisher.
- A number of Goodyear employees to be laid offAudacy on MSN · Oct 29, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Owatonna. 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
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Steele County economy
5.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.9% the month before
17,839
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
37,413
people in Steele County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$83,448
median household income
Source: Census ACS
38%
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 Minnesota’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. Minnesota unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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