WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Airplane maker Bombardier is cutting 1,800 jobs across its facilities worldwide as it restructures its operations.
Company spokeswoman Isabelle Rondeau said Thursday it is too early to say what the impact will be on the company’s Learjet plant in Wichita or any other of its facilities.
The Montreal-based company plans to implement the restructuring the remainder of this year so that it will be in place by Jan. 1.
Bombardier says production-related jobs will not be affected. It plans a 15 percent reduction in what the company calls “indirect functions” that such as human resources, finance and communications.
In January, Bombardier announced a workforce reduction of about 1,700 employees and contractors at its facilities in the United States and Canada. That number included 550 people in Wichita.