Tag: hiring

Airbus Is Hiring Thousands of Workers for Aircraft Production Increase

Reuters reports that Airbus is better prepared for the challenge of securing enough people to handle jet production increases than it was before the pandemic, a senior executive said. The European planemaker plans a two-thirds increase in production of best-selling A320neo-family single-aisle jets to 75 a month in 2026 from 45 now. In Germany, its second-largest base, Airbus plans to hire 3,500 staff for the second year in a row to handle the ramp-up and feed projects on decarbonization and industrial systems.
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Sikorsky Aircraft’s New President Promises to Keep Up Hiring Pace This Year

The Hartford (CT) Courant reports that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Sikorsky Aviation “hired more than 1,000 workers last year, doubling the number of workers brought on in 2019. Its workforce was 13,000 as of” February 28, and although Sikorsky President Paul Lemmo “would not say how many will be hired in the future, Sikorsky expects to ramp up, he said.” Sikorsky’s CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter is at the “center of a 2016 deal with Connecticut that keeps manufacturing in the state until at least 2032,” and is “set for delivery later this year.” Meanwhile, as part of an Army competition, Sikorsky is “designing and building prototypes for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft that will replace the Black Hawk and Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, a light-attack scout helicopter.” Lemmo said, “Those programs will determine our future for the next five years.”
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