Powell, TN jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Director of AdmissionsCommunity Health Systems
- Director, Med/SurgCommunity Health Systems
- RN Director of Care ManagementCommunity Health Systems
- Radiation Therapy Team LeaderCommunity Health Systems
- Environmental Group ManagerTerracon Consultants
- Geotechnical Group ManagerTerracon Consultants
- Sales Representative - No Experience RequiredAlpha Agency
Employers hiring most in Powell
- Community Health Systems4 open roles
- Terracon Consultants2 open roles
- Alpha Agency1 open role
Powell layoffs
No layoff notices naming Powell 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.
Knox 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 4.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.8%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,305 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+1,550 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,712 jobs), information (−983 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Powell. 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
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Laid off in Tennessee? How to file for unemployment in Tennessee (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- East Tennessee Workforce Development Board
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Knox County economy
2.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.0% the month before
262,224
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
487,401
people in Knox County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$71,662
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
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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