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What EnerSys layoffs have meant for employees

If you're searching for the state notice behind your own layoff, the filer named on it may be an EnerSys subsidiary. In our WARN tracker, Ooltewah's notice sits under Hawker Powersource, Sylmar's under Quallion and both Washington closings under Alpha Technologies Services, while EnerSys's own name shows up only on the older Kansas filings. Hawker filed for Ooltewah on June 29, 2022, the day the board voted. EnerSys announced its deal for Quallion in a 2013 release, and California's own WARN report lists the Sylmar closure under Quallion as well, so it's worth searching a state's list under these names and under EnerSys.

At Bellingham, the closing took in more than the production line. The operations unit, the June 30 letter said, covered the purchasing, planning, shipping and receiving departments along with production, and its job list ran from assemblers and machine operators to manufacturing and test engineers, buyers, planners and the supervisors over shipping and the warehouse. An engineer or a buyer there was inside the closing as surely as an assembler. If you work in purchasing, planning, shipping or receiving at a plant that gets a closing letter, you can look at how that letter defines the affected unit and whether your role is on its job list, since at Bellingham those departments sat inside the closing.

If a move to another EnerSys site comes up, the company's own announcements show where its production has been headed. It named plants in Richmond, Kentucky, Springfield, Missouri and Suwanee, Georgia to take work from closing sites, and for the two Mexico plants it pointed to tax benefits and tariff risk. At Ooltewah, EnerSys gave workers 60 days' notice just before July 4, 2022, and the Bellingham letter came 62 days before the first separations and 107 days before the last. That letter also said affected workers couldn't bump less senior employees to keep a job, which left a transfer offer as the one way it described for an operations worker to stay. If you're weighing an offer like that, it's reasonable to set the move's pay and costs against what leaving would bring.

The 2022 Ooltewah plan's cash costs included key employee retention, as WFMZ reported it. If you're offered retention pay to stay through a closing date as well as severance when you go, setting the two dates and the two amounts side by side shows what staying to the end earns against what an earlier start somewhere else would bring. Whether taking one changes the other belongs in that same comparison.

At the Ooltewah and Spokane Valley closings, local workforce offices lined up help for the people losing jobs. Tennessee's rapid response team met Hawker employees at the plant from July 26 to 28, 2022 to go over the layoff process, unemployment benefits and training, and more than a dozen area employers set up a job fair in the factory foyer, as the Chattanooga Times Free Press described it. WorkSource Spokane told the Spokane Journal of Business it had connected with EnerSys to link workers with other employers and possibly hold a job fair on site. EnerSys's notices went to Washington, Kansas, Tennessee and California, and each of those state pages is a place to start on benefits there.

In 2025 EnerSys was headquartered on Route 183 in Bern Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and had a distribution facility in Upper Macungie Township in Lehigh County. If you worked at either one, Pennsylvania's unemployment benefits page is a place to start.

A sourced history of EnerSys layoffs

• June 2026, Bellingham, Washington operations unit closing

  EnerSys's Alpha Technologies Services told Washington in a June 30 letter that its Bellingham operations unit would close October 15, 2026, with separations from August 31, except for operations workers offered a move to a Georgia affiliate or another Washington site.

• March 2026, Tijuana, Mexico plant closing announced

  EnerSys said in a March 25 release it would close its Tijuana lead-acid plant and move most of the production to Springfield, Missouri, putting the cost at about $37 million, $23 million of it cash for severance, decommissioning and cleanup.

• July 2025, about 575 non-production jobs worldwide

  EnerSys announced in a July 22 release a cut of about 575 jobs, 11% of its non-production workforce worldwide, mostly corporate and management positions, with $15 million to $20 million in expected charges, primarily for severance and related costs.

• April 2025, Monterrey, Mexico plant closing announced

  EnerSys said in an April 1 release it would close its flooded lead-acid battery plant in Monterrey and move production to its existing Richmond, Kentucky plant, with $12.4 million in expected cash charges, severance among them.

• April 2024, layoffs at the Hays plant

  EnerSys laid off employees in various roles at its Hays plant by the end of April, citing a telecommunications and broadband slowdown, the Hays Post reported, and pointed them to local job-transition help and its Employee Assistance Program.

• November 2023, Spokane Valley, Washington plant closing

  EnerSys told Washington it would close its Spokane Valley plant, still using the Purcell Systems name, and lay off 77 people from January 17, with production to go to Bellingham and Suwanee, Georgia, the Spokane Journal of Business reported.

• March 2023, Quallion's Sylmar, California closing notice

  Quallion, the Sylmar lithium battery maker EnerSys announced it would buy in a 2013 release, gave notice of a permanent closure at its San Fernando Road site, with 115 employees and a May 31 effective date, California's WARN report shows.

• June 2022, Ooltewah, Tennessee plant closing

  EnerSys's board voted June 29 to close the Hawker Powersource plant in Ooltewah, with Kentucky and other sites to replace its output. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported it would shut by August 28 with 165 jobs cut.

What to do if you're laid off from EnerSys

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. EnerSys's biggest hubs: Washington, Kansas, Tennessee, California. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what EnerSys's hub states run: Washington, Kansas, Tennessee, California, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.