Portsmouth, OH jobs, layoffs and employers
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- QA/QC Specialist / Quality EngineerStrata-G
- Front Office ManagerThe Salvation Army
- Membership Sales Manager – Portsmouth, OHGlobal Medical Response
- Administrative AssistantLifePoint Health
- Assistant Project ManagerSB Energy
- Senior Financial AnalystPro2Serve
- Program AnalystNaval Facilities Engineering Systems Command
- Hospice Medical DirectorGentiva
- QA/QC Specialist / Quality EngineerStrata-G
Employers hiring most in Portsmouth
- Strata-G2 open roles
- Gentiva1 open role
- Global Medical Response1 open role
- LifePoint Health1 open role
- Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command1 open role
- Pro2Serve1 open role
- SB Energy1 open role
- The Salvation Army1 open role
Portsmouth layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Portsmouth in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Colleges in Portsmouth
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Shawnee State University | Public 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Portsmouth. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Workforce Development Area 1 Adams, Brown, Pike, & Scioto Counties
Adams, Brown, Pike, Scioto
OhioMeansJobs Scioto County
Portsmouth · Comprehensive · 740-354-7545
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
Scioto County economy
5.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
6.4% the month before
28,759
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
73,118
people in Scioto County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$49,571
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Scioto County
- Franklin Furnace18 jobs
- Harrison9 jobs
- Madison6 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Ohio’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.