North Atlanta Is Hiring: The Local Jobs Open Right Now
North Atlanta job openings now include warehouse roles, healthcare jobs, corporate positions, and public-sector opportunities in cities and schools. Wages and specializations vary widely.
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Who is actually hiring around North Atlanta right now?
The answer is broader than the usual collection of restaurant, retail and nursing jobs. Late August openings stretch from cybersecurity in Duluth and animal health in Johns Creek to school support jobs, county government positions and warehouse work paying more than $30 an hour.
For job seekers, the more interesting part may be where some of those opportunities are hiding. A resident searching only the major employment sites could easily overlook an $80,755 city job in Alpharetta, a $30-an-hour recreation position in Forsyth County or several newly posted corporate jobs at AGCO in Duluth.
Here is a look at some of the local employers with real openings now.
In Braselton, warehouse pay reaches $34 an hour
For residents along the Suwanee, Sugar Hill and Buford corridor who are willing to commute a little farther northeast, Uline has one of the more striking groups of openings.
The company is hiring warehouse associates at its Braselton operation for $26 to $32 an hour. Night warehouse associates are being offered $28 to $34 an hour, while night mechanics can earn $29 to $38 an hour. Customer service representatives are listed at $25 to $30 an hour, with bilingual customer service positions at $26 to $30.
Those are not temporary holiday wages. The warehouse positions are full time, and Uline has continued posting new Braselton openings through the final days of August.
There is also a remarkable spread between the hourly and executive jobs inside the same operation. Uline is seeking a director of distribution and operations with advertised annual pay of $260,000 to $350,000, along with a warehouse operations analyst, inside sales representative and other positions.
See Uline’s Braselton openings
Duluth has a cluster of corporate jobs that may surprise people
Duluth rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as Alpharetta when people talk about North Atlanta’s corporate job market. AGCO’s headquarters is a reminder that it should.
The agricultural-equipment company has been adding Duluth openings throughout August, and they cover a surprisingly wide range of professional work. AGCO is recruiting a lead cybersecurity analyst, a global manufacturing-software program manager, an order management specialist, a senior benefits specialist, a senior learning and development facilitator, a senior indirect-procurement manager and a strategy and transformation manager.
Several are very recent. The cybersecurity position was posted Aug. 22, the global program manager position Aug. 21 and the benefits specialist Aug. 19.
That makes Duluth worth searching even for North Fulton residents who instinctively turn west toward Alpharetta for technology and corporate work. AGCO’s openings include technology, human resources, procurement, training, manufacturing systems and business operations — exactly the sort of jobs that can disappear from view when people search by city rather than by employer.
Johns Creek’s new animal-health headquarters is producing specialized jobs
Boehringer Ingelheim’s move to Johns Creek is beginning to look like more than a large office lease.
Among the company’s Johns Creek openings is a specialist or senior specialist position in pharmacovigilance systems and data analysis, work connected to monitoring the safety of animal-health products. The company is also recruiting a Business Support Center and Sustainability intern for its Johns Creek facility.
The jobs offer an early glimpse of what Boehringer Ingelheim’s presence could mean for the local employment market. These are not generic corporate-office positions. They sit at the intersection of animal health, science, data, business systems and regulatory work.
That matters in a city that has traditionally sent many of its highly educated residents elsewhere for specialized employment. Boehringer Ingelheim is bringing some of those jobs directly into Johns Creek.
Search Boehringer Ingelheim jobs
Healthcare hiring goes well beyond registered nurses
Northside Hospital Forsyth remains one of the largest employment anchors in South Forsyth, and its hiring needs extend well outside bedside nursing.
Northside has more than 4,500 employees at its Forsyth operation, and recent Cumming-area openings include CT technologists, radiologic technologists, physician-practice management and nursing positions. A part-time RN position at the Pain & Spine Care Center Forsyth is among the jobs currently being advertised.
The hospital system also divides its careers into nursing, physician practices, allied health and nonclinical work. That last category is worth remembering. Large hospitals employ people in scheduling, patient access, administration, transportation, food service, facilities and dozens of other jobs that do not require becoming a nurse or physician.
Northside is also accepting applicants for an acute-care LPN residency program at Forsyth and other campuses, including newly licensed nurses, graduating LPNs and people returning to nursing or changing specialties.
Search Northside Hospital jobs
School is back, but the school systems are still hiring
Anyone who assumes school hiring ended when students returned to class should look again.
Forsyth County Schools still had 32 openings on Aug. 27. They included jobs in transportation, custodial services, food and nutrition, maintenance and warehouse operations, technology, student support, special education and substitute work, along with several educator positions.
Fulton County Schools also continues to recruit in North Fulton. Johns Creek High School has been seeking a building custodian, while Northview High has an opening for a bilingual ESOL parent liaison. That job works directly with families, helping parents understand the school system and connect with services.
These positions can be especially useful for residents looking for work close to home. School employment is far larger than teaching alone, and the districts operate almost like midsize cities, with their own transportation networks, kitchens, technology departments, maintenance operations, warehouses and administrative staffs.
See Forsyth County Schools openings
See Fulton County Schools openings
Alpharetta is hiring a $30-an-hour agriculture coordinator — and an $80,755 911 manager
Local government may be one of the most overlooked employers in North Atlanta.
Alpharetta is currently seeking a 911 Operations Manager to run day-to-day operations at the city’s Emergency Communications Center. The full-time position pays $80,755 a year and includes responsibility for staff, operational planning, technology projects, training and emergency communications.
A very different Alpharetta opening pays $20 to $30 an hour. The city’s Community Agriculture Grower Program Coordinator works with programs including Grow-A-Row, Homegrown Harvest, community gardens and local food donations. It is a temporary position, but one that would be difficult to discover by searching conventional corporate job categories.
That contrast — emergency communications on one side, community agriculture on the other — shows why municipal career pages can be worth checking directly.
Forsyth County has everything from outdoor recreation to six-figure management
Forsyth County government is also recruiting across dramatically different kinds of work.
One of the freshest openings is for a Benefits & Wellness Manager in Cumming, paying $77,079 to $102,129 a year. Applications close Sept. 5. The job oversees employee benefits including health insurance, retirement, disability coverage and the county’s employee health and wellness operation.
For someone looking for seasonal work, the county is paying $30 an hour for an Outdoor Recreation Program Leader. The person hired will supervise programs, seasonal staff and volunteers and handle safety and risk management during activities. Applications remain open through Sept. 10.
A related Outdoor Recreation Program Instructor job pays $20 an hour.
Those are useful examples of how much the suburban government workforce has changed. Rapidly growing counties do not just need deputies and clerks. They need human-resources managers, recreation staff, planners, engineers, technology workers, lawyers, communications employees and specialists to run increasingly complex public services.
Gwinnett is hiring, too — including jobs above $100,000
Gwinnett County’s size produces another substantial pool of public-sector employment within commuting distance of Duluth, Suwanee, Sugar Hill and Peachtree Corners.
One of the county’s newest openings is Legal Manager, posted Aug. 28 with a salary range of $69,183 to $114,152. The position oversees administrative functions in the county Law Department, supervises support staff and works with Human Resources. Applications are open through Sept. 18.
For residents of Northeast Gwinnett, the county itself is worth treating as a major employer rather than simply the government that collects taxes and operates public services.
The useful lesson: search employers, not just job titles
The practical lesson for anyone looking for work is simple: do not rely entirely on typing a job title into a national employment site. Search the employers themselves.
Look at the county. Look at the city. Look at the school system. Look at the hospital. Look at the large company you drive past every week without knowing what happens inside.
In North Atlanta right now, some of the more interesting jobs are hiding in plain sight.
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