Morristown, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Strategy and Digital ManagerColgate Palmolive
- Project EngineerColgate Palmolive
- Operations Team LeaderColgate Palmolive
- Quality EngineerColgate Palmolive
- Maintenance Specialist IIICummins
- Senior Material PlannerCummins
- Material PlannerCummins
- Sr. Controls EngineerCummins
- Production Planning ManagerHowmet Aerospace
- Manufacturing ManagerHowmet Aerospace
Employers hiring most in Morristown
- Colgate Palmolive4 open roles
- Cummins4 open roles
- Howmet Aerospace3 open roles
- International Paper2 open roles
- All Ways Caring1 open role
- Alpha Agency1 open role
- Community Health Systems1 open role
- CRH Public1 open role
- Great Bay Staffing1 open role
- Jackson Hewitt1 open role
Morristown layoffs
No layoff notices naming Morristown 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.
Hamblen 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 0.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.4%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+467 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−773 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Morristown. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Street Paving and Road Milling Projects Underway in Oak RidgeKnoxville Daily Sun · Oct 14, 2026
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- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Morristown. 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).
- East Tennessee Workforce Development Board
Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, Union
American Job Center of Tennessee - Morristown
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Hamblen County economy
3.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.8% the month before
27,519
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
64,930
people in Hamblen County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$52,794
median household income
Source: Census ACS
28%
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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