Bedford, MA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Production Planner / 62906Sapphire Recruitment
- Director, Business ControllerAmetek SCP
- Senior Firmware EngineerNovanta
- Revenue & Operations Planning ManagerNovanta
- Staff Cost Accountant [C]Novanta
- Manufacturing Software EngineerNovanta
- Principal Systems EngineerFourth Power
- Facilities ManagerFourth Power
- Manager, OperationsInteger Holdings
- Lead, Thin Film Coatings Manufacturing EngineerEntegris
Employers hiring most in Bedford
- The MITRE52 open roles
- Stoke Therapeutics20 open roles
- Entegris18 open roles
- Berkshire Grey12 open roles
- Ocular Therapeutix11 open roles
- lexington-medical.com for sale9 open roles
- Mitre9 open roles
- Koninklijke Philips8 open roles
- Novanta5 open roles
- Obsidian Therapeutics5 open roles
Bedford layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Bedford in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Bedford. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- MassHire Greater Lowell Workforce Board
Towns: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford
- MassHire North Central Workforce Board
Towns: Ashburnham, Ashby, Ayer, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Groton, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Princeton, Shirley, Sterling, Templeton, Townsend, Westminster, Winchendon
- Metro North Regional Employment Board
Towns: Arlington, Belmont, Burlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Revere, Somerville, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn
- Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.
Towns: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Boxborough, Brookline, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham
Middlesex County economy
4.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.3% the month before
937,295
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,622,896
people in Middlesex County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$126,779
median household income
Source: Census ACS
61%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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- Tewksbury168 jobs
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- Lowell110 jobs
- Chelmsford79 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Massachusetts’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.