Manufacturing 2019 Manufacturing Week Bus Tour | Page 18

Auburn
Boeing, the largest private employer in Washington, employs 5,000 people at its
Auburn fabrication site. The site’s eight manufacturing business units produce
17,000 parts every day for the company’s airplanes. In 4.2 million square feet, the
site’s capabilities include metals, tooling, emergent and specialty manufacturing.
Boeing’s Workforce
Readiness Center
(left) is home to an
apprentice program
that dates back 84
years. First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt
presided over the
first graduation
ceremony in 1940.
U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, D-WA, (above, center)
joined the tour of Boeing's Auburn facilities.
Photos above, below and center courtesy The Boeing Co.