Boeing expands engineering centre in India, to hire 1500 more

Bengaluru: Global aerospace major Boeing on Friday expanded its engineering and technology centre in this tech hub and said it would hire 1,500 more engineers to drive digital innovation. “The new centre has doubled our footprint, which will enable our employees to work on new technologies that will drive aerospace innovation from India for the world,” said Boeing’s Indian arm in a statement here. The company plans to hire an additional 1,500 employees to ramp up the headcount at the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre to 2,500 over the next few years from 1,000 in the specialized fields of IT, engineering and research and development (R&D).
“The new facility will have software technologies for design, manufacturing and service offerings and to scale up aerospace, engineering and R&D activities,” said the statement.
From an IT perspective, the focus at the centre will be on Product Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Data Analytics and Software Design for aerospace.
16/06/18 IANS/Sify