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EMPLOYMENT The numbers of temporary workers in the engineering and maintenance sectors is on the increase Temporary solutions The aerospace industry faces a skills shortage: a special survey commissioned by Flight International on behalf of Hunting Aviation examines the problem ALLAN WINN/LONDON THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH Aerospace Companies (SBAC) recently launched an initiative to attract more young people into the aerospace industry, citing as one of the reasons for doing so a widespread concern diat the industry could be facing skills shortages in die future. One of the most obvious manifes tations of such shortages is the use of temporary workers, on short-term contracts, in a bid to fill in the gaps. To gauge how widespread the problem is now, and may become in the future, Flight Internationalhas, on behalf of I hinting Aviation, commissioned a survey of the European aero space jobs market. The aims of the survey were threefold: • to give an overview of the European aero space market for temporary maintenance and engineering workers; • to examine the factors influencing the hire of temporary workers; • to highlight future trends and key issues for companies within the market. The survey was conducted earlier this year by the Harris Research Centre of Richmond, UK, among 22 5 aerospace company sites in Europe, 132 of which were using temporary workers in some capacity. Of those companies using tem porary workers, 49% were in die UK and the rest in continental Europe (interviews were conducted in German, French, Italian, Spanish or English as appropriate). By far the largest industry sector represented was that of third- party maintenance, which accounted for 36% of the companies surveyed, followed by odier civil-aviation activities witfi 26%, component manufacture with 14%, defence activities with 11%, and airframe and engine manufacturers with 10%. The companies surveyed accounted for some 123,000 employees, of whom some 7,000 peo ple were temporary workers of any description - an average of 53 per site. Of those, the vast majority of employees (6,300) were temporary maintenance or engineering workers - some 90% of the total identified. TEMPORARY RATIOS Although those temporary maintenance and engineering workers account for only 5 % of the workforce in the companies surveyed, they account for some 12% of the total engineering and maintenance work carried out within • FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 12 - 18 November 1997 71
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