Orchard Park, NY jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Financial Center Banker/ Licensed Relationship Manager in DevelopmentNorthwest Bancshares
- Physical Inventory Lead (Formerly Physical Inventory Manager)Lowe's
- Vice President, Operations & ProcurementCurbell
- Managing DirectorSocial Capital Resources
- Senior Quality EngineerEaton
- Senior Electromechanical Manufacturing EngineerEaton
- Manufacturing EngineerEaton
- Operations ManagerEaton
- Environmental SpecialistEaton
- Quality Engineer - Advanced Quality PlanningEaton
Employers hiring most in Orchard Park
- Eaton6 open roles
- La-Z-Boy2 open roles
- Spectrum Health & Human Services2 open roles
- Curbell1 open role
- Dark Star1 open role
- Dresser1 open role
- Lowe's1 open role
- Northwest Bancshares1 open role
- Professional Plastics1 open role
- Social Capital Resources1 open role
Orchard Park layoffs
No layoff notices naming Orchard Park 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.
Colleges in Orchard Park
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Bryant & Stratton College-Online | Private non-profit 4-year | 10,000–19,999 |
Erie 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 2.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.2%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+10,463 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+2,878 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,615 jobs), admin & staffing (−1,186 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Orchard Park. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Buffalo Public Schools superintendent says layoffs, school closures are comingspectrumlocalnews · Nov 8, 2026
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Erie County economy
4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.0% the month before
467,586
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
950,044
people in Erie County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$71,175
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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