Sanford, NC jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Sanford
- Senior Process Manufacturing EngineerSTERIS
- Senior Manager, Health, Safety, & EnvironmentSTERIS
- Senior Program ManagerSTERIS
- Engineering Regulatory Compliance ManagerPENTAIR
- Operations SupervisorPENTAIR
- Club DirectorBoys & Girls Clubs Of America
- Director of Cardiovascular Services in North CarolinaKD-Staffing.
- Territory Sales RepresentativeExpress Employment Professionals
- Assistant Project ManagerProgressive Contracting
- GMP Manufacturing Quality SpecialistSolomon Page
Employers hiring most in Sanford
- STERIS5 open roles
- Caterpillar4 open roles
- Liberty Tire Recycling2 open roles
- PENTAIR2 open roles
- Boys & Girls Clubs Of America1 open role
- Connexzia1 open role
- Express Employment Professionals1 open role
- Gentiva1 open role
- Jet Excellence1 open role
- KD-Staffing.1 open role
Sanford layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Sanford 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 Sanford. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Capital Area Workforce Development Board
Chatham, Johnston, Lee, Orange, Wake
NCWorks Career Center -Capital Lee County
Sanford · Comprehensive · 919-775-2241
Mon - Thurs. 8:30am - 4:30pm; Fri 8:30 - 2:00 PM
Lee County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.2% the month before
30,130
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
64,565
people in Lee County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,060
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from North Carolina’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.