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Great and secure job, for now

Structural Design Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Boeing for 6 years
March 7, 2015
Renton, Washington
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Excellent healthcare benefits, the best out of Puget Sound.

Company matches $200 for every 20 hours you volunteer for an eligible nonprofit. This does not include professional, religious, or political associations, and pet shelters.

On the professional side, bosses are more than willing to work through any scheduling issues at work with no problems.

The work can be challenging and cutting edge, but you need to go out and seek that for yourself.

Cons

Parking is a doozy if you are working at the Everett plant, and you can't really catch the bus from most areas either.

There's a general feeling of job insecurity as more WARN notices are issued and work moves out of Puget Sound.

Advice to Management

Upper executive management makes their employees feel like just a number and an expense on a balance sheet. I realize the market is competitive, but let your workers feel like you are investing in us, and the great employees will follow suit. Allow for a less aggressive engineering schedule in development programs and give your engineers transparency of cost throughout development versus the current status quo, to provide costs only if you ask and have a "need to know" to reduce recurring costs for the airplane.

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