Ottumwa, IA jobs, layoffs and employers

10 open professional jobs in Ottumwa. Ottumwa is in Wapello County.

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Employers hiring most in Ottumwa

  1. LifePoint Health2 open roles
  2. AJI Technical Search & Consulting1 open role
  3. Alliant Energy1 open role
  4. Deere John Capital1 open role
  5. divvyDOSE1 open role
  6. Five Below1 open role
  7. gpac1 open role
  8. GPAC1 open role
  9. LHC Group1 open role
  10. Optum1 open role

Ottumwa layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Ottumwa in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Workforce development and job centers

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

  • South Central Iowa LWDA

    Appanoose, Davis, Hardin, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lucas, Mahaska, Marshall, Monroe, Poweshiek, Tama, Van Buren, Wapello, Wayne

  • IowaWORKS Center - Ottumwa

    Ottumwa · Comprehensive · 641-684-5401

    8:00am - 4:30pm Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri; 9am - 4:30pm Wed

Wapello County economy

  • 4.6%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    5.4% the month before

  • 16,878

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 35,265

    people in Wapello County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $60,034

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 29%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from Iowa’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.