Newport News, VA jobs, layoffs and employers

166 open professional jobs in Newport News. Newport News is in Newport News city.

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Jobs in Newport News

Environmental Aide Team Lead (2nd shift)Riverside Health System
Operations ManagerWalmart
Sales Manager - Newport News, VAScotts Miracle-Gro
Sr Principal Software Engineer secret clearanceNorthrop Grumman
Project Manager - Newport News, VAMerrick Medical Center
Senior Structural EngineerMerrick Medical Center
Project ManagerAkima
Director of Operations - TerminalsKinder Morgan
Project Manager - Ops Senior IIKinder Morgan
Manager - Operations Terminals IIIKinder Morgan

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Employers hiring most in Newport News

Newport News Shipbuilding32 open roles
HII Mission Technologies24 open roles
Riverside Healthcare Association12 open roles
Riverside Health System8 open roles
Leidos4 open roles
Naval Sea Systems Command4 open roles
North Wind4 open roles
Riverside Health System4 open roles
Kinder Morgan3 open roles
Michael Page3 open roles

Newport News layoffs

No layoff notices naming Newport News 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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Colleges in Newport News

Colleges in Newport News
College	Type	Students
Christopher Newport University	Public 4-year	1,000–4,999

Where Newport News ranks

Where Newport News placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

#14Best cities for junior jobs in Virginia30% · of 26
#14Best cities for mid-career professionals in the Southeast60% · of 87
#18Best cities for mid-career professionals in the Mid-Atlantic60% · of 85

Newport News city outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

Private-sector jobs up 1.3% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 1.5% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 4.2%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,039 jobs), wholesale (+425 jobs)
Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,341 jobs), management of companies (−532 jobs)

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Newport News city economy

4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.0% the month before
87,653
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
184,774
people in Newport News city
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$66,718
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: Layoff notices from Virginia’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. Virginia unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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