Northrop Grumman: Transfers from Long Island to peak in summer

Job transfers from Northrop Grumman's Bethpage unit to locations in Florida and California will peak in the summer, a company spokeswoman said.

Spokeswoman Christine Restani said in an email that some employees already had begun moving, but "the majority" of transfers would take place in the summer.

Last March, the aerospace giant announced that 850 jobs, about 60 percent of the local workforce, would be moved from Long Island to locations in Florida and California. The company did not specify how many Long Island workers were offered, or accepted, transfers inside the company.

One Long Island defense contractor, Farmingdale-based Telephonics Corp., welcomed the opportunity to hire Northrop Grumman veterans.

"Many of the people affected by the Northrop Grumman move to Florida and California are among the best in the industry in their respective fields," Janet Perinelli, Telephonics' senior vice president of human resources and corporate communications, said in an email. The company "has a wide range of positions we are currently recruiting for and encourages qualified Northrop Grumman employees not wanting to leave Long Island to review these openings."

Telephonics, a unit of Griffon Corp., had 43 job openings on its website Wednesday, including one dating to June.

Work on manned aircraft, including the E-2D Hawkeye surveillance plane, now done at Northrop Grumman in Bethpage, will be consolidated in Melbourne, Fla., the company said. The Bethpage unit's remaining 550 workers will focus on radar jamming and cybersecurity at Northrop's Electronic Attack Center of Excellence.

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