Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Boeing is set to hire 800 employees over the next two years in India. The company plans to take fresh hires on board for job functions ranging from core engineering to frontline factory workers, and also support functions such as human resources, top company executives said. While Boeing’s India operations will likely have 1,500 direct employees by the end of this year, the company also expects its partner firms to increase the count of 7,000 people working on its projects.
“We’ve set aspirations to have 25% of our footprint outside the U.S. We’ve focused on key target markets and obviously India is a big one of those,” Heidi Capozzi, Boeing’s senior vice-president for human resources globally, said.
LiveMint reports that India’s booming aerospace industry represents a major opportunity for international firms operating in the space. The country is set to become the third-largest aviation market by 2025, a year earlier than expected, according to a report by the International Air Transport Association published in October.
Boeing will train new graduates. “People such as Aircraft maintenance engineers— there are a lot of them graduating but not enough [who are] trained,” Pratyush Kumar vice president of Boeing India, said. “We are building that right now and it should come online in the first quarter of next year,” he added.
