ALTEN aims to hire 3,000 new employees in aerospace and defense

ALTEN, a world leader in Engineering and IT Services, is expanding its workforce to meet the growing business and new skills requirements of the aerospace and defense sectors. Manufacturers in these three sectors are faced with increasingly complex technologies, strong environmental and safety constraints, and ever-shorter development cycles. To meet these challenges, the Group is announcing an international recruitment campaign for 3,000 employees by 2023, including 1,500 in France.

8,500 ALTEN Group engineers support major players in the aerospace and defense industries across 25 countries. The Group aims to hire 3 000 employees in these sectors in the following countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, United-Kingdom, and Spain.

“The need for specialized skills and expertise in the aerospace, defense and security industries has never been greater. ALTEN has a crucial role to play in supporting the challenges and transformation of these sectors, meeting the technological challenges, and accompanying the major issues of sustainable development, decarbonization and security. We are adapting and investing by recruiting the best talent, structuring our Centers of Excellence, training to develop new skills and innovating.”
Pierre Bonhomme, Executive Director of ALTEN

Meeting technological and environmental challenges

The recovery in production rates post-Covid-19, combined with the sector’s digital and environmental transformation, present the industry with some major challenges: