Boeing’s hiring spree points to progress toward Next Boeing Airplane

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By the Leeham News Team

May 30, 2022, © Leeham News:  Boeing is hiring again.

Boeing's hiring spree is aimed at replacing engineers, technicians, retirees and jobs lost in Russia and Ukraine. But an analysis also points to gearing up for the Next Boeing Airplane. Photo Credit: Leeham News.

The pendulum of staffing swings back and forth in the aerospace industry.

Today's hiring events are one of several steps beyond the highly visible need to deliver airplanes required to rebuild Boeing. Rebuilding its brain drain and positioning itself for its next new airplane is another required step. Repairing the damage to its once-gold standard safety reputation is another. Boeing also is moving to fix this issue.

Historically, companies chase the proper mix of employees and never get it right.  The reason for the personnel churn is the nature of the skills needed and the timing of their need.

In an attempt to get ahead of this problem, Boeing spent millions of dollars last year to retain SPEEA-represented engineers and technical employees at the Everett final assembly site. This reverses a decades-long trend to downsize the employed workforce through outsourcing or shifting union jobs from Washington State to out-of-state locations.

To understand why this happens, we need to look at the cascading of work through the Commercial Airplanes division starting with a single product.

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