This Hawaii County Hawaii job guide highlights credible employment pathways across local, state, and federal government, healthcare, education, public safety, and workforce resources serving Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Waimea, Pāhoa, Keaʻau, North and South Kohala, Kaʻū, and communities throughout Hawaiʻi Island.
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This Hawaii County Hawaii job guide highlights credible employment pathways across local, state, and federal government, healthcare, education, public safety, and workforce resources serving Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Waimea, Pāhoa, Keaʻau, North and South Kohala, Kaʻū, and communities throughout Hawaiʻi Island.
Job-volume badges: A “10+ jobs” badge means that ten or more openings were observed during the most recent review. These badges can help identify employers that may be more likely to have current opportunities, but they do not guarantee that the same number of jobs is still available.
The County of Hawaiʻi is the island's principal local-government employer, with civil-service recruitment supporting departments such as Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Environmental Management, Finance, Information Technology, Mass Transit, Planning, Housing, and administrative services. Its recruitment system includes both immediate vacancies and continuous recruitments that can feed future openings around the island.
The Department of Water Supply is a semi-autonomous County agency responsible for 23 public water systems across Hawaiʻi Island. Its workforce combines engineering and water-resources planning with water-quality programs, operations, field maintenance, finance, administration, and customer support; current recruitment information has included continuous engineering positions and seasonal student opportunities.
The Hawaiʻi State Judiciary's Third Circuit serves Hawaiʻi Island through circuit, district, and family courts. Judiciary hiring can include courtroom and clerical staff, judicial assistants and law clerks, social workers connected with probation and treatment courts, fiscal and research positions, information technology, management, and other civil-service or exempt roles.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park recruits federal employees and seasonal staff for work connected with Kīlauea, the Kahuku Unit, and other park operations. Career paths can include interpretation and education, visitor and resource protection, natural and cultural resource stewardship, maintenance, facilities, administration, and youth or conservation programs; a 2026 Park Guide recruitment specifically included both the Kahuku and Kīlauea units.
Pōhakuloa Training Area is a U.S. Army installation on Hawaiʻi Island supported through Installation Management Command-Pacific. Federal civilian work can involve installation operations, public works, facilities, logistics, training support, environmental and cultural-resource stewardship, safety, information technology, and administrative services that sustain one of the Army's major Pacific training areas.
Hawaiʻi Health Systems Corporation's East Hawaiʻi Region includes Hilo Benioff Medical Center, Honokaʻa Hospital and Skilled Nursing, Kaʻū Hospital, and the Yukio Okutsu Veterans Care Home. Hilo Benioff is HHSC's largest facility and one of Hilo's largest employers, while the regional network creates career paths in hospital care, long-term care, nursing, allied health, clinical support, facilities, and business operations.
Kona Community Hospital in Kealakekua and Kohala Hospital in Kapaʻau recruit through a shared West Hawaiʻi Region career system. Their employment listings support acute and emergency care, nursing, imaging, laboratory services, rehabilitation, patient access, finance, food and environmental services, facilities, and other clinical and hospital-support functions serving West and North Hawaiʻi.
Queen's North Hawaiʻi Community Hospital in Waimea provides hospital, clinic, home-health, imaging, rehabilitation, and other services for North Hawaiʻi. A 2026 hiring event highlighted openings ranging from registered nurses, nurse aides, and patient-care coordinators to imaging technologists, speech-language pathology, patient access, sterile processing, environmental services, food service, and supervisory roles.
Kaiser Permanente operates Hawaiʻi Island medical offices in Hilo and Kailua-Kona, with additional services in Waimea. The Kona career search alone displayed eighteen openings during this review, including nursing, medical assistants, laboratory and imaging work, sterile processing, pharmacy, utilization review, care coordination, and ambulatory operations.
Hawaiʻi Island Community Health Center provides medical, dental, behavioral-health, pharmacy, and related care through locations on both the east and west sides of the island. Its employment program ranges from entry-level administrative and clinical positions with training opportunities to licensed healthcare professionals and leadership roles, supporting communities from Hilo, Keaʻau, Kaʻū, and Pāhoa to Waikoloa, Kona, and Kealakekua.
Hawaiʻi operates a single statewide public school district rather than separate county school systems. On Hawaiʻi Island, HIDOE hires teachers, educational specialists, counselors, librarians, educational assistants, custodians, food-service workers, office staff, technical employees, and other personnel for schools and complex-area operations serving communities across the island.
The University of Hawaiʻi system's Hawaiʻi Island presence includes UH Hilo and Hawaiʻi Community College, which operates in Hilo and at the Pālamanui campus in North Kona. University employment spans faculty, research, administrative/professional/technical positions, civil service, facilities and maintenance, campus operations, information technology, student services, and other academic-support work.
Kamehameha Schools Hawaiʻi operates its Keaʻau campus with elementary, middle, and high-school programs, along with broader educational services on the island. Careers can extend from classroom teaching and student support to athletics, facilities, food services, ʻāina and cultural programs, technology, business operations, administration, and community-facing work.
Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy is an independent school in Waimea with pre-kindergarten through grade 12 programs and both day and boarding operations. Its employment needs can include classroom faculty, residential and student-life staff, athletics, arts, outdoor and sustainability programs, admissions and advancement, facilities, dining, technology, and administrative support.
Parker School is an independent, coeducational K-12 day school in Waimea with separate lower, middle, and upper-school programs. Its employment page posts current openings and directs applicants to the school's job system for faculty and staff opportunities connected with instruction, student activities, operations, administration, and campus support.
Hawaiʻi Academy of Arts & Science is a public charter school based in Pāhoa with elementary, middle, and high-school programs. The school maintains its own employment center for open positions and substitute opportunities, creating a direct hiring path for educators, school leadership, student-support personnel, office staff, and other roles within its charter-school operation.
Hawaiʻi Police Department provides islandwide law-enforcement services and maintains a dedicated recruitment center for sworn and civilian careers. The County continuously recruits Police Officers and Police Communications Officers, while civilian pathways can include forensics, information technology, finance, records, clerical work, and other functions that support police operations.
Hawaiʻi Fire Department operates career stations across the island and combines fire suppression with emergency medical, rescue, and related response capabilities. County recruitment is the pathway for firefighter and other paid department positions, including roles represented in the department's workforce such as Fire Medical Specialists, while a separate Volunteer Fire Division supplements career staffing.
The Hawaiʻi Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation operates the Hawaiʻi Community Correctional Center in Hilo and Kulani Correctional Facility on the island. Recruitment includes Adult Corrections Officer positions, while the broader corrections workforce supports security, treatment and rehabilitation programs, case management, food service, maintenance, administration, and institutional operations.
HireNet Hawaiʻi is the state's public labor-exchange and career-information system. Hawaiʻi County data during this review showed well over ten advertised openings in multiple occupational groups, including more than 200 office and administrative-support jobs and more than 150 transportation and material-moving jobs, while the platform also offers résumé tools, skills matching, training information, and labor-market research.
State of Hawaiʻi Careers is the central recruitment system for executive-branch civil-service opportunities. Hawaiʻi Island applicants can use location filters for communities such as Hilo, Kona, Kohala, Waimea, Puna, Kaʻū, and Hāmākua while exploring professional, technical, regulatory, healthcare, trades, administrative, and public-service roles across state departments.
The American Job Center Hawaiʻi Island in Hilo is the County's one-stop workforce center for job seekers and employers. Free services include job listings, résumé assistance, application and interview help, workshops, computer and internet access, hiring events, employer recruitment and screening, training programs, and rapid-response assistance for workers affected by layoffs.
The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation serves Hawaiʻi Island through its Hawaiʻi Branch in Hilo and a Kona section. Eligible participants can receive vocational assessment and counseling, employment planning, training, job-placement assistance, supported-employment services, assistive technology, and other help designed to address disability-related barriers to obtaining or keeping work.
Goodwill Hawaiʻi provides free career and employment support on Hawaiʻi Island, including services through Hilo and Kona offices. Career Navigators work one-on-one with participants to identify skills and interests, strengthen job-search preparation, pursue training, improve work readiness, and connect with employment pathways; programs are designed to help people facing a range of barriers to work.
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