Boeing plans to hire hundreds in Oklahoma for engineering divisions

Several hundred of the 550 engineering jobs that Boeing plans to move from Long Beach, Calif., to Oklahoma City likely will be hired in Oklahoma, said Steve Hendrickson, the company’s director of government operations.

“We are working on our skill mix and making offers in California,” Hendrickson said at a Greater Oklahoma City Chamber luncheon Monday. “In the first quarter of next year, we will start to hire locally. It will be hundreds that we’ll be hiring here. That’s my personal guess.” [read full article at The Seattle Times]