Bristol, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Financial AnalystParkerstaffing
- Associate Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Regulatory Operations and PublishingParkerstaffing
- Operations Quality Assurance Technical SpecialistParkerstaffing
- Senior Account ManagerParkerstaffing
- Corporate Tax DirectorSaffery
- Head of ProcurementHays
- Facilities ManagerSeaman
- Principal Civil Structural EngineerHays
- Supplier Quality EngineerWinnebago Industries
- Corporate Tax ManagerSaffery
Employers hiring most in Bristol
- Parkerstaffing4 open roles
- Hays2 open roles
- Saffery2 open roles
- Empire Petroleum1 open role
- Ensemble1 open role
- Graybar1 open role
- Seaman1 open role
- Ulta Beauty1 open role
- Winnebago Industries1 open role
Bristol layoffs
No layoff notices naming Bristol 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 Bristol
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| King University | Private non-profit 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Sullivan 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 2.5% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: construction (+938 jobs), health care (+719 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−902 jobs), transportation & warehousing (−458 jobs)
Learn and get funded in Bristol
- 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 Bristol. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Tennessee? How to file for unemployment in Tennessee (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Northeast Tennessee Workforce Development Board
Carter, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington
Sullivan County economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.6% the month before
73,504
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
159,693
people in Sullivan County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,802
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
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 Tennessee’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. Tennessee unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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