Thales plans to hire more than 12,000 employees worldwide by 2023, including 4,000 job creations, driven by dynamism in the aerospace, defense and security and digital identity sectors, the group announced. “This is a record year”, stressed the group’s human resources director Clément de Villepin.
Hiring is broken down into all sectors of the group’s activity, including the aeronautical sector, whose activity had been affected during the health crisis caused by Covid-19.
Research and development needs
“Our businesses – defense and security, aeronautics and space, identity and digital security, including cybersecurity – are all growing, which explains our significant recruitment needs, particularly for young talent,” said Thales CEO Patrice Caine. , in an interview with the Sunday newspaper. France, the main country of establishment of the tricolor team, concentrates almost half of the planned incorporations (5,500) and distributed throughout the territory.
More than 40% of the planned hires are related to research and development activities (artificial intelligence, cybernetics, algorithms, systems engineers, etc.), that is, 5,500 people, including 2,200 in France. It is “the sap of what makes the development of Thales”, according to him.
Support functions also represent 40% of contracting, with the remaining 20% being industrial production and logistics activities.
Driven by the resumption of air traffic
Forgotten by the pandemic, the French aeronautics and defense sector is launching extensive hiring plans, but is concerned about the difficulties encountered in finding rare skills and ensuring acceleration.
Driven by the resumption of air traffic, the preparation of future programs and the increase in defense budgets around the world, the 400 companies in the sector that employ more than 190,000 people, foresee more than 15,000 recruitments in France in 2023, according to the Groupement French Aeronautical and Space Industries (Gifas).
Airbus has announced that it expects 3,500 hires in France this year, half of which will be job creation, out of the 13,000 hires it plans in total worldwide.
Safran has 12,000 contracts, including 4,500 in France after a year 2022 in which it has already hired 17,000 people, of which more than 6,000 were job creation.
Same findings at Dassault Aviation, whose parent company has 9,200 employees and expects an additional 1,000 hires this year, or aeronautical equipment maker Daher, which employs 10,500 employees and aims to hire 1,100 people in 2023, of which 700 will be net creations.
Among the profiles sought, specialists in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data exploitation or new energies (hydrogen, electrification, etc.).
Source: BFM TV
