Who's hiring in Baytown right now

A page that's different every week, because the counts are pulled from the employers' own postings pages when it's built and dated at the top. The prose is the map; the numbers are live.

Right now, by employer

The table below lists the fifty largest employers in the six zips — the plants, their contractors, the hospital, the districts, the city, Lee College, H-E-B, Buc-ee's, the hotels, the big boxes — with each one's careers page and the number of openings posted there today where the page shows a count. Sorted by openings. A dash means the page doesn't publish a count; the link still works.

The rhythm

Hiring here has a season. The safety council and the contractors staff up six to eight weeks before a big turnaround, and the hotels, the RV parks and the restaurants follow two weeks later. The districts hire in spring for August; the city hires seasonal in March for the water park; the hospital hires year-round; retail hires before the holidays. If the table's thin this week, the turnaround watch on the work page says when the next surge is coming.

Where to look that isn't a job board

• The safety council's bulletin board at ISTC on Decker — the contractors post there before they post online.
• The union halls' out-of-work lists (Deer Park, La Marque, Texas City).
• The Chamber's member job listings.
• The workforce board's office, which also pays for training.
• The sign in the window, which in Baytown is still how half the restaurants hire.
• Lee College's career services board, open to the public, which carries the plant pathways' employer partners.
• The hiring events the safety council and the workforce board hold before big turnarounds — on the calendar when announced.

By sector, this week

The same table rolled up: plants and contractors, healthcare, education, city and county, retail and grocery, hospitality, logistics. When one sector's count jumps week over week, that's the news; the column says why.

Since yesterday

The postings that appeared in the last 24 hours, from the employers whose pages date their listings. Pulled at build; empty when nobody posted.

Questions people ask

Who is hiring in Baytown right now? The table, sorted by openings, dated today. Is Buc-ee's hiring in Baytown? Its careers page is in the table with the count. Are the plants hiring? The plants' own pages rarely; their contractors, before every turnaround — the work page has both. Is the hospital hiring? Houston Methodist Baytown posts its count; it's in the table. Where are the hiring events? On the calendar, tagged jobs.

En español

Quién está contratando en Baytown ahora: la tabla de abajo tiene los cincuenta empleadores más grandes con su página de empleos y el número de vacantes publicadas hoy (con fecha). El ritmo: los contratistas de las plantas contratan seis a ocho semanas antes de un turnaround; los hoteles y restaurantes dos semanas después; los distritos escolares en primavera; la ciudad en marzo para el parque acuático. Mire también el tablero de ISTC en Decker, los sindicatos, la Cámara de Comercio, la oficina de empleo de Lee College y el letrero en la ventana. Las ferias de empleo antes de cada turnaround están en el calendario.