Alcoa, TN jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Facility Maintenance ManagerUS Foods
- Day Warehouse ManagerUS Foods
- Director of TransportationJobot
- Chief Electrical EngineerArconic
- Process Engineer 2Denso
- Lead Product Metallurgical Engineer - Alcoa, TN (2 Openings)Beneficial Talent Source
- Staff Mechanical EngineerArconic
- Reliability EngineerArconic
- Lead Product Metallurgical EngineerArconic
- Ingot Area ManagerArconic
Employers hiring most in Alcoa
- Arconic11 open roles
- US Foods2 open roles
- Beneficial Talent Source1 open role
- Denso1 open role
- Jobot1 open role
Alcoa layoffs
No layoff notices naming Alcoa 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.
Blount 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 10.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.8%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+3,432 jobs), health care (+891 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−594 jobs), admin & staffing (−410 jobs)
Local job-market news
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- Street Paving and Road Milling Projects Underway in Oak RidgeKnoxville Daily Sun · Oct 14, 2026
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Blount County economy
2.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.0% the month before
70,218
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
137,747
people in Blount County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$74,607
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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