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The plant of Méaulte, in the North of France, is hosting the training course of five Canadian plant workers making up the first group currently trained overseas within Aerolia.
In order to make the Bombardier Aéronautique Global 7000 and Global 8000 business jets benefit from all its know-how and skills, the Aerolia Group has implemented a training program specially organised for its first plant workers.
Sophie, Carl, Daniel, Dominique and Éric, all Canadian, are since the beginning of 2014 the first five employees of Aerolia Canada to be integrated into the French teams of the Aerolia Group.
“At the time when our Design Office and Production teams are carrying out, in Canada as well as in France, the ramp-up of the Global 7000 and Global 8000 program, we are sharing with our plant workers the experience we have at Aerolia as a designer and manufacturer of aircraft equipped fuselages”, said Benjamin Burson, Aerolia Canada head of production engineering.
Complete and customized training
These plant workers will thus spend, from January to July 2014, six full months in France on the Aerolia assembly lines in Méaulte; this period will include training sessions dedicated to the assembly operations alternately with those organised at the Lycée Privé aéronautique Aerolia (Private Aeronautical High School).
For Dominic Leduc, Daniel Oprea and Éric Dubois: “this immersion time is very important for learning correctly because we confirm here, in practice and in the industrial reality, the two months of training that we already attended at EMAM in Montréal”. The École des Métiers de l’Aérospatiale de Montréal, a component of the Commission Scolaire de Montréal, indeed makes the connection with the Lycée Privé Aerolia in Méaulte for the training of the new Aerolia Canada personnel.
Job knowledge dissemination under real conditions
Beyond cultural differences or the French language which is so close and sometimes so different however, the training course on aeronautical assembly is really concrete and in the field.
Sophie Valade and Carl Kelly thus work side by side with the teams of the assembly line in Méaulte. “We thank the French teams for their hospitality as we feel fully integrated. In the beginning, we were very impressed by the size of the assembly lines in Méaulte; we are learning a lot there and this is very beneficial for our customer, Bombardier Aéronautique. Our French colleagues really play the game and perfectly teach us their ways of working”, they declared.
Endorsed each one by a French colleague who will follow him/her up all along these six months, these plant workers, supported by their French colleagues, will take part in the assembly of the first centre fuselages, designed and manufactured by Aerolia, for the Global 7000 and Global 8000 aircraft.
“Back in Mirabel, on our brand new site of Aerolia Canada, our Canadian pioneers will then be the best support to best practices and good work of the future team members of our site which, in the end, will employ 150 people”, concluded Marc Bourret, Aerolia Canada CEO.
