Editor's note: This story was published in 2015. Laken Sommer started working at Spirit AeroSystems three weeks ago as an assembly mechanic – and he didn’t have any aircraft manufacturing experience.

St. Louis Community College, in partnership with Boeing offers accelerated pre-employment programs to train individuals for potential jobs as assembly mechanics and composite mechanics at Boeing. St.

Production of Boeing’s large 777 twinjet in Everett is significantly backed up, with incomplete jobs on each aircraft forcing catch-up work, some of which is being finished only after the jets roll ...

The door plug blowout incident on Alaska Airlines' Flight 1282 in January made headlines and terrified passengers. But my background in the aircraft manufacturing industry may provide some insight. I ...

A leading aerospace manufacturer was in need of a state-of-the-art assembly solution to meet its rapidly increasing production demands. Forecasted sales for its new jet engine greatly exceeded its ...