Horseheads, NY jobs, layoffs and employers

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Show me jobs near meJobs in Horseheads
- Senior High-Voltage Test EngineerEaton
- Project ManagerJabil
- Outside Sales Rep (Building Materials)84 Lumber
- Engineering ManagerAverro
- Tax ManagerPEAK Technical
- Outside Sales RepresentativeCharter Communications
- Supervisory Airway Transportation Systems Specialist (SSC Supervisor) (FV-J)Federal Aviation Administration
Employers hiring most in Horseheads
- 84 Lumber1 open role
- Averro1 open role
- Charter Communications1 open role
- Eaton1 open role
- Federal Aviation Administration1 open role
- Jabil1 open role
- PEAK Technical1 open role
Horseheads layoffs
No layoff notices naming Horseheads 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.
Chemung 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 0.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 3.9% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.0%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+882 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−474 jobs), retail (−405 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in New York? How to file for unemployment in New York (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Chemung/Schuyler/Steuben Counties Workforce Development Board
Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben
Chemung County economy
4.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.9% the month before
35,464
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
82,805
people in Chemung County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,469
median household income
Source: Census ACS
37%
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 New York’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. New York unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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