The Business Journals By Evan Hoopfer 8/21/2018
Turn on the television. Scan the front page of the paper. When global threats are in the news, it's usually a good barometer for the demand defense contractors like Raytheon are seeing.
"Anybody can open the newspaper and get a feel for the world climate that we're in," said Tay Fitzgerald, vice president of Operations for Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business unit. "While that's unfortunate for the world climate, it does create a increased demand signal for our industry across the board."
Because of that increased demand for its products — another Raytheon executive said it's the highest he's seen in his 17 years with the company — Raytheon is looking to hire hundreds of employees across its North Texas sites.
The multibillion-dollar company based outside of Boston has 430 job openings in Dallas-Fort Worth, with 229 of those in McKinney. Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) has five business units, and its second-largest, Space and Airborne Systems or SAS, is based in McKinney. Raytheon is hiring people in a variety of roles.
"It's engineers, working in the day-to-day, it's manufacturing, it's across the board we are hiring in basically every position," said Aaron Maestas, engineering fellow and chief engineer, Surveillance and Targeting Systems for SAS.
Raytheon isn't the only Dallas-Fort Worth defense contractor seeking talent. After hiring 1,800 people in the last year to its Fort Worth plant where it makes the F-35 fighter jet, Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) announced in July it intends to hire 400 additional people.
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