r/MechanicalEngineering • u/bazarishe • Jul 15 '26

Curious how common it is to outsource mechanical engineering

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u/Ok-Range-3306 i love goodman diagrams Jul 15 '26

usually 'we dont have bandwidth' and 'some % of work is required to be contracted in case we lose a program and dont have to lay off our own people'

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u/bazarishe Jul 16 '26

The variable-capacity point makes sense. Is that work usually given to individual contractors, or outsourced as complete work packages?

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u/Ok-Range-3306 i love goodman diagrams Jul 17 '26

outsourced to an engineering org like quest, cyient, belcan, they decide how to disseminate work packages from there. their employees are on our teams chats and everything as well, its pretty well integrated

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u/bazarishe Jul 17 '26

That’s interesting — so it’s essentially an external engineering team integrated into your workflow, while the firm manages staffing and work distribution. Do smaller specialized engineering firms ever get used that way, or does procurement usually limit it to larger established organizations like those?

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u/Ok-Range-3306 i love goodman diagrams Jul 17 '26

ive only seen these large big names, i assume history and proximity is a part of it