Boeing Co. announced it was adding over 1,000 new engineering positions in Long Beach and Seal Beach over the upcoming two years as part of the consolidation plan companywide to increase its efficiencies and meet the demand globally for new aircraft and related support.

The new hires are part of the company’s plan that centralizes its support program for commercial airlines at the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Engineering Design Center, which stretches across both Long Beach and Seal Beach, two southern California coastal cities.

A spokesperson for Boeing said the company wanted one place that was devoted solely to our customer. The spokesperson added that the new jobs would be high paying ones.

Some of the job positions will move from Seattle and some will be taken over by existing employees at Boeing who could be affected by the soon to be closure of the Long Beach program C-17. There will also be new hires, including college graduates that have recently entered the workforce.

The spokesperson said it was easier retaining talented engineering employees in the Southern California area than it is in the Seattle, Washington area.

Boeing, based in Chicago is the fourth biggest employer in Orange County with more than 6,800 workers who live and work in the area.

In 2013, the company added more than 500 employees at the same design center that worked on airplanes that were no longer in production but still being used for flying.

Boeing is also planning on moving its Seattle based operations center to the Southern California areas as part of the ongoing changes in the company said the spokesperson.

The new operations in Long Beach as well as Seal Beach will be located in buildings that the company already has within its sprawling operations in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

Boeing is forecasting that as many as 21,000 commercial airplanes as well as freightliners will have been constructed by 2032, which represents over $4.8 trillion in production globally for the company.

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