Boeing's UK chief extols the value of STEM graduates
Sir Michael Arthur, president of Boeing UK and Ireland, talks about the changes taking place in advanced manufacturing and how STEM students remain vital in ensuring Britain’s position as a leading global technology innovator
The life-long learner in me prizes and envies students. What an exciting opportunity ahead of you.
I speak to you as the head of the UK operation of [Boeing]. We are a significant employer of engineers, mathematicians and technicians that make up some 180,000 Boeing employees globally in 65 countries.
Boeing is growing rapidly in the UK. We recruit hundreds of people at all job levels each year. We have a great need for engineers, IT technicians and project managers (to name a few) across the country.
But STEM graduates are valuable to our business not just within engineering roles. A project coordinator with a science background, a communicator with a degree in economics, bring to their careers intellectual curiosity, creativity, innovative thinking and problem solving in a way that some other subject areas do not provide.
However, we sometimes find it difficult to get the people with the desired knowledge and skill set.
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