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| Boeing moving 500 jobs from California to St. Louis County |
| 2016-11-16 |
| [Post Dispatch] Boeing Co. is moving 500 jobs to its north St. Louis County campus from California. The jobs moving to St. Louis County from Huntington Beach, Calif., are part of a consolidation of the company’s Defense, Space & Security business headquartered in St. Louis, spokeswoman Sarah Reed told the Post-Dispatch. "We will be bringing 500 positions to St. Louis," Reed said, adding the jobs are support positions, not production jobs. Chicago-based Boeing currently employs 14,500 people in the St. Louis area. Additionally, Boeing announced Tuesday that it’s closing its El Paso, Texas, and Newington, Va., sites. "In order to push ourselves farther and win more business, we need to make the most of our resources and talent," Leanne Caret, president and CEO, Defense, Space & Security, said in a statement. "These steps will help us be a stronger partner for our customers worldwide." The consolidation is part of an effort to enhance efficiency and promote greater collaboration, the company said, adding that new facilities will not be added in the St. Louis area for the added jobs. "We won’t be adding any infrastructure at this point," Reed said. The jobs are professional-level positions ranging from engineering to finance, said Reed. About 1,600 jobs will be moved from Huntington Beach, mainly to other California locations. Huntington Beach hosts a design and research center working with small satellite technology, advanced space access, networked systems, cybersecurity, unmanned underwater vehicles, and advanced manufacturing. Boeing has moved several hundred jobs to St. Louis over the past three years, in fields such as information technology, research and development and support for the F-22 Raptor fighter. But overall Boeing employment in the metro area has hovered in the 14,500 to 15,000 range. Boeing plans to hire 700 people by 2023 to make wing and tail parts for its 777X airline at a newly built plant at its sprawling complex in north St. Louis County. Thousands of other St. Louis production jobs face an uncertain future over the long term as Boeing seeks enough orders to keep its F/A-18 and F-15 fighter lines far into the next decade. The company has enough F/A-18 orders to operate until 2020 and enough F-15 orders to last until early in the next decade. Boeing is bidding to build the next Air Force trainer, and a win would likely extend employment in St. Louis. The first prototype of the trainer was built in North County. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 ....Interesting from a historical standpoint -Boeing spent decades trying to kill off McDonnell/Douglas, and now they're moving jobs to the McAir ancestral home and talking about moving more production away from Seattle. /somewhere Jim McDonnell and Don Douglas laugh Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2016-11-16 05:56 |