Associated Press
SEATTLE — Lockheed Martin Corp. knows where to recruit.
Lockheed Martin’s Texas subsidiary, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, beat out the Boeing Co. for the Joint Strike Fighter contract this fall, and now Lockheed wants some of the competition’s workers.
Lockheed is one of about 50 companies participating in a job fair primarily for the 9,000 Boeing workers who will lose their jobs in layoffs in the upcoming months. Lockheed is the largest of the aerospace companies signed up for the Dec. 11 job fair.
Others at the fair include recruiters for public-sector jobs such as prison guards, police officers and civil engineers.
Boeing, which recently moved its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, announced it would cut 30,000 jobs by the middle of next year to match a reduction in airplane production rates.
In October, the Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin with the contract for the Joint Strike Fighter, which is expected to be worth at least $200 billion.
Boeing has mostly disbanded its strike-fighter design team since then, while Lockheed is looking to hire 5,000 workers. Already 200 engineers have been added to the company.
"I’m sure a lot of people at Boeing have appropriate experience to work (for Lockheed)," said John Kent, a company Joint Strike Fighter spokesman in Fort Worth, Texas. "We go where the talent is."
The job fair will be at the Machinists district lodge in Seattle, and is sponsored by Boeing’s Labor Management Council.
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