Boeing considering job cuts for engineers
World’s largest aerospace company, Boeing, is considering plans for laying off airplane engineers as part of efforts to “reorganize or consolidate its engineering teams.”
According to an internal memo seen by Reuters, Boeing is deciding whether to make voluntary layoffs available to those employees.
The American company, however, has made clear that it has no plans to replace higher-level employees who leave, except in rare situations.
"We do not intend to backfill for people who retire from their executive or management roles unless the position is absolutely vital to carrying out our work statement," said the memo, signed by Mike Delaney, vice president of engineering at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
"We will closely examine potential impacts to the function and our ability to serve our customers if selective (voluntary layoffs) are employed…We hope to work through our analysis as quickly as possible and share our decision with you in the next several weeks," the memo added.
Two weeks ago, Ray Conner, chief executive of Boeing's airplane business, declared that job cuts were necessary to "win in the market, fund our growth and operate as a healthy business."
At the end of 2015, Boeing employment in Washington stood at 79,238, out of a companywide total of 161,368. That’s down almost 7,800 jobs from the most recent Washington employment peak, in fall 2012, of 87,023.
The job losses followed a prolonged slump in airplane industry across the world.
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