Boeing lays off up to 180 at engineering unit

New Delhi: Boeing has closed 180 employees Boeing India Engineering Technology Center (BIETC) as part of the global downsizing being done by the troubled American aerospace chief in Bengaluru. Boeing Senior VP and President of Boeing Global, Dr. Brendon Nelson has confirmed this to TOI.
“We are giving the company the right shape. As that part, 150–180 Boeing employees (have been closed) in India,” he said. It is discovered that 7,000 employees in India are in Boeing, around 6,500 in Bight in Bengaluru and Chennai. The company’s website says that the center in these two metros “complex advanced aerospace and supports Boeing’s global engineering growth.” One of Boeing -owned engineering and technology campus, one of the largest Boeing investments outside the US, was opened in January 2024.
“Because we are decreasing, our total workforce (47 nationalities globally) are going up to 162,000. About 15% of our workforce is outside the United States, the largest number of employees. So we have got about 24,000 employees outside the US and have more than a quarter of them. The decades said,” Our about 320 supply chain partners have 7,000 employees, including 7,000 employees in India.
Nelson said, “The company has reduced a total of 10%in total. So there are about 17,000 employees in the entire company who have worked hard. And the reason is that we have got the right size for the company, to ensure that it is in line with the financial and economic challenges we faced.
Boeing says that India is important for its revival plans and will increase sourcing as the aircraft production will increase – something that airlines like Air India Group and Akasa are eagerly waiting for customers as they are not getting aircraft at the promised pace. As the production increases the speed, the headcon can go up again with expectation. Kelly Ortberg, who took over as the Chairman and CEO of Boeing last August, when the company was in a freefall, “execution of delivery; to stabilize the company, whether it is a balance sheet or a production lines, and then thinking about the future” as its own priorities.
Nelson said, “In our first meeting (with Ortberg), he said, ‘Brendon, I need to go and see what we are doing outside the US”, who asked him to visit India in the first three countries, along with the other two Australia and Japan. Ortberg Boeing was in India on his first foreign trip as the president. “This is a reflection of their commitment to our company and India especially globalization. And I told him that when we have ended the journey in relation to India, are you anything that you are worried about, you think you should do anything, what we are not doing?” He said that whatever he saw in India was most impressed by the especially the people and the complexity of the quality and the work being done here, “he said.