Portsmouth, RI jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Portsmouth
- Mechanical Engineer IIRaytheon
- Manufacturing Engineer IIRaytheon
- Senior Mechanical Design EngineerRaytheon
- Operations/Supply Chain (OSC) - Principal Financial Analyst - P3 - (Hybrid)Raytheon
- Principal Mechanical Engineer, Radar ElectronicsRTX
- Sr. Hardware Quality EngineerRTX
- Electrical Engineer II - OnsiteRTX
- Manufacturing Engineer IIRTX
- Senior Power Design Electrical EngineerRTX
- Systems Engineer II, Onsite RIRTX
Employers hiring most in Portsmouth
- RTX8 open roles
- Raytheon5 open roles
- Trispoke Managed Services Pvt1 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.
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.
- Rhode Island Governor's Workforce Board
Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington
Newport County economy
2.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.5% the month before
41,673
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
85,095
people in Newport County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$100,859
median household income
Source: Census ACS
48%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Newport County
- Middletown65 jobs
- Newport49 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Rhode Island’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.