Oak Ridge, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Oak Ridge

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• Technical Documentation SpecialistStandard Nuclear
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Employers hiring most in Oak Ridge

1. UT-Battelle (ORNL)67 open roles
2. Centrus Energy21 open roles
3. Akima Systems Engineering12 open roles
4. BWX Technologies11 open roles
5. Standard Nuclear10 open roles
6. Ametek Inc/7 open roles
7. Kairos Power6 open roles
8. BWXT Ordnance Tennessee5 open roles
9. Ametek SCP4 open roles
10. Keylogic3 open roles

Oak Ridge layoffs

No layoff notices naming Oak Ridge 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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Anderson 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 4.7% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 6.1% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.1%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,293 jobs), admin & staffing (+909 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−381 jobs), manufacturing (−369 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Oak Ridge. 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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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Oak Ridge. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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Anderson County economy

• 3.1%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.4% the month before

• 36,422

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 78,175

  people in Anderson County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $63,171

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 39%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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