Inducting newcomers in the aerospace/defense industry
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Marie Decroix
Partner / France
Toulouse
Marion Dewost
Manager
Point of view
by Marie Decroix, Marion Dewost and Alexandre Binard
At a glance
While recruitments continue massively to support the production ramp-up, the aerospace and defense sector is now facing the challenge of upskilling its newcomers.
The decreasing availability of traditional recruitment pools through industrial study programs has driven the sector to open up to new profiles, often less experienced, for example, people undergoing career change. The decline in the level of candidates at entry, coupled with a high volume of newcomers, has put the entire training pathway under pressure, resulting in longer and very variable training lead time as well as overloading the training centers.
At the same time, production teams have to deal with increasingly ambitious operational objectives: speeding up production rates while maintaining the level of quality. These two challenges rely on qualified operators, on the front line to transfer their knowledge and know-how while delivering the expected level of productivity.
Our experience supporting clients in navigating operators’ qualification improvement allowed us to identify strategic levers to help industrial actors find the delicate balance between skills development and production ramp-up.
