Rocky Mount, NC jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Rocky Mount

• Hospice Director of Nursing RNPruitthealth Home Health
• Hospice Palliative Sales Account Executive- TrianglePruitthealth Home Health
• Outside Sales Representative - UniFirstUnifirst
• Senior Plant Manager - Rocky Mount, NCHubbell
• Group Lead- Press 1st ShiftHubbell
• Group Lead- FRPHubbell
• Manufacturing EngineerCummins
• Director Operational Excellence Site LeaderHoneywell Aerospace
• ISC Production SupervisorHoneywell Aerospace
• Advanced Manufacturing Engineer IIHoneywell Aerospace

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Employers hiring most in Rocky Mount

1. Honeywell Aerospace4 open roles
2. Hubbell3 open roles
3. Brandcoven2 open roles
4. LS Tractor2 open roles
5. Pruitthealth Home Health2 open roles
6. Advanced American Technologies1 open role
7. Amivie1 open role
8. Belcan1 open role
9. Cummins1 open role
10. Harrow Health1 open role

Rocky Mount layoffs

No layoff notices naming Rocky Mount 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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Colleges in Rocky Mount

Nash County outlook: Building

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

• Private-sector jobs up 3.6% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 3.9% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.1%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: construction (+558 jobs), other services (+434 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Pfizer announces layoffs at NC facilitiesWSOC-TV Channel 9 on MSN · Oct 24, 2026
• Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer cutting jobs at manufacturing plants in Rocky Mount and SanfordPublic Radio East · Oct 23, 2026
• Pfizer announces layoffs at NC facilities, leaving workers and local leaders seeking answersABC11 on MSN · Oct 21, 2026
• Pfizer layoffs hit North Carolina plants as part of multibillion-dollar cost-saving measuresThe Business Journals · Oct 20, 2026

Learn and get funded in Rocky Mount

• 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 Rocky Mount. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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

• Turning Point Workforce Development Board

  Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Wilson

• NCWorks Career Center- Edgecombe/Nash County

  Rocky Mount · Comprehensive · 252-467-9300

  Monday- Friday, 8:30 am-5:00pm,

Nash County economy

• 4.1%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.9% the month before

• 42,464

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 95,451

  people in Nash County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $60,704

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 33%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS