Industrial requirements for future engineers – experts career · Industrial requirements for...

Industrial requirements for future engineers

– experts career

Michael Gruenewald, Airbus Group Innovations

Dean of Airbus Group Experts

Frithjof Weber, Airbus

Head of Knowledge and Competence Management

June 13th, 2014

• Introduction

• Competence Management

• Experts Policy

• Conclusions

Industrial requirements for future engineers

ConclusionsIntroduction Competency Experts

M. Gruenewald, F. Weber June 2014 ACARE, Brussels

…at a glance


Airbus Group Employees at Different Countries


Consolidation within Europe



Given strong growth perspectives in the commercial aircraft market and the need

both to maintain strategic competences and foster innovation in an increasingly

competitive environment, Airbus Group is committed to ensuring a talent pipeline drawing

from all backgrounds.

According to both theTrendence and Universum graduate surveys, the Group was ranked

the most attractive employer amongst French engineering students in 2013.

International HR services company Randstad ranked the Group as the most attractive

employer for experienced professionals in Spain and number three in Germany.

In 2013, the Group recruited 8,823

employees worldwide (11,080 in 2012),

while 4,160 employees left the company

(4,042 in 2012). Overall, the workforce stood

at 144,061 at year-end 2013 (year-end 2012:

140,405). The increase was mainly driven by

the continued industrial ramp-up in the

commercial aircraft business.

Competence Management at Airbus Group



Why is Competence Management critical for Airbus Group?

Secure our future by:• Identifying, developing, protecting, sharing our key capabilities (such as

system engineering)• Develop new businesses based on our key capabilities (such as Services

or L.S.I.)

Avoid some risks such as:• Loss of critical expertise (retirement, resignations, ,…)• Lack of competencies to deliver our main programs (A 380, A 350,

A400M, NH 90, ,…)• Transfer of key competencies to a competitor• Difficulty to manage risk sharing partners

Anticipate:• Resource planning and mobility of employees to better staff the programs• Future competencies (new programs, technologies, process) for which we

need to invest now• Obsoletes competencies in order to re-qualify employees

Improve synergies:• Cross-divisional actions in R&T, HR, Make or Buy• Improve the learning budget by sharing more training across the Divisions



Competence Management Framework



Mapping of employees and positions

Position

Generic/Specific Job

Technical domain (for Engineering jobs)

Product

Role

Competence link to Employee

Each of the 5 different elements are picked up in different catalogues



Influencing parameters on Airbus Long Term Competence Management


LTC Driver Inputs Providing

context and trends for business

potential global conditions for LTC development

external factors and

constraints

specific studies e.g.

environmental roadmaps

external conditions that could precipitate the need for

change in our products or operations

product stratgey potential disruptive changes to product or product mix

service strategy new business areas

functions strategy (procurement,

manufacturing, etc.)

new industrial structure (e.g. change in scope of our

operations or positioning versus our supply chain

R&T strategynew technologies with forecast timescales for maturity

(typically captured in roadmaps)

R&T plans and TRL reviewsR&T projects generate competency requirements via

TRL process

future market and

global conditionsglobal market forecast

technology

business



Mid and Long Term Competence Needs

1. Technical Engineering Disciplines

2. Generic Engineering Disciplines / Systems

Engineering and Technical Management

3. Transversal Disciplines

4. Management, Leadership and Soft Skills


LTC process integrated in the product development process



Expert Policy at AG



In a dynamic environment Airbus Group is faced with many challenges – and many

relate directly to the knowledge and expertise of its workforce. It is crucial that we

systematically and efficiently manage our know-how

Expert Policy at AG - rationale

Mature platforms

Transfer of activities

High need for innovations

Need for increased productivity

Increased mobility of workforce

Increased outsourcing / cooperation



Part of value creation process

Expert Policy at AG

Strategic importance

Part of competency development



Main accountabilities for Experts

1. expertise …be a resource of expertise

2. advisory …advise on technological developments

3. innovation …impact research & innovation

4. representation …represent Airbus Group in and out

5. knowledgemanagement

…deal with capture & spread of knowledge

6. project work …be involved in specific projects

7. patents …advise on & evaluate patents



An overall Experts’ Need Analysis shall be performed by the

Divisions every year to ensure that Airbus Group Expertise

portfolio is adapted to cope with:

• Airbus Group business & HR strategy,

• Emerging Technologies,

• Make or Buy Policy…

The expertise needs analysis will result in a creation and/or

removal of expertise positions and/or Technical Domains as

well as the volume of expert positions.

Experts’ Need Analysis



Definition of Strategic Expert Positions

• Strategic importance of field of technology

(amount of activity, potential growth,

necessity to lead, etc.)

• Balanced representation of area by experts

and line management

• Establish efficient network within Airbus Group

• Positioning



Expert Distribution



Conclusions• Airbus Group wide mapping of competencies, skills

and positions has been established

• Long term competency needs are identified for

Airbus

• Strategic skills development and training programs

linked with identified needs

• Mobility and hiring programs are linked to

requirements

• Specific expert career path established to secure

technical skills



For further information please contact:

F. Weber, Airbus, [email protected]; +49 4215383797 competence mangement

M. Gruenewald; Airbus Group Innovations, [email protected] +40 8960727974 experts policy

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