Companies in the aerospace sector have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic for the past two years, but the skies are finally clearing. It is therefore necessary to relaunch production and recruit.
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After two years of health crisis, activity in the aeronautics sector is picking up again. It is therefore necessary to accelerate the pace, all sizes of business combined, from large groups to small or medium-sized businesses. The SME branch of GIFAS (Grouping of French aeronautical and space industries) is launching a campaign called “Aero is recruiting“. The objective is to hire 15,000 people on a permanent contract (CDI) from CAP to BAC+8, and 6,000 work-study students through apprenticeship. This makes a total of more than 21,000 people with very high profiles. different.
We must reprime the pump and meet the demand of customers who are leaving, including airlines and the defense industry. The approximately 400 member companies of GIFAS now total 188,000 employees, 14,000 less than before the health crisis which had reduced activity by 25% and led to these job cuts. But the sector resisted thanks in particular to aid from theEtat – guaranteed loans, partial unemployment, etc. – and today it is rehiring more people and creating more positions than it cut during the crisis.
The activity of the French aerospace sector started again last year with an overall turnover of 55 billion euros, up 7% over one year. Of this total, two-thirds (37 billion) was achieved through exports. Aeronautics and space together form the leading French exporting sector. The defense branch made a major contribution to this, amounting to 19 billion euros, an increase of nearly 20%.
It is this momentum that needs to be supported at a time of recovery, and especially in the light of the sovereignty of our industry. For the president of GIFAS, who is also the boss of Airbus, Guillaume Faury, this strategy must go through an optimization of the production chains.