ABOUT AIRBUS
Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer whose customer focus, commercial know-how, technological leadership and manufacturing efficiency have propelled it to the forefront of the industry. With a turnover of around 22= billion euros in 2005, Airbus today consistently captures about half of all commercial airliner orders. The company also continues to broaden its scope and product range by applying its expertise to the military market.
Headquartered in Toulouse, France, Airbus is jointly owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). It is a truly global enterprise of some 55,000 employees, with fully-owned subsidiaries in the United States, China and Japan, spare parts centres in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Washington, Beijing, and Singapore, training centres in Toulouse, Miami, Hamburg and Beijing and more than 130 field service offices around the world. Airbus also relies on industrial co-operation and partnerships with major companies all over the word, and a network of some 1,500 suppliers in 30 countries.
As a company, Airbus draws together the skills and expertise of 16 sites in the UK France, Germany and Spain. Each site produces a complete section of the aircraft, which is then transported to the Airbus final assembly lines in Toulouse or Hamburg. This unique industrial concept, based on Centres of Excellence, has proved to be extremely efficient. Airbus’ industrial network has been expanded to include a satellite design office in North America and a joint venture engineering centre in Russia while a further engineering centre in the People’s Republic of China was inaugurated in July 2005.
Airbus’ modern and comprehensive product line comprises four highly successful families of aircraft ranging from 107 to 555 seats: the single-aisle A320 Family (A318/A319/A320/A321), the wide-body A300/A310 Family, the long-range wide-body A330/A340, the all-new medium-capacity long range A350 Family, and the ultra long-range, double-decker A380 Family. Airbus’ unique family concept ensures that Airbus fly-by-wire aircraft share the highest possible degree of commonality in airframes, on-board systems, cockpits and handling characteristics, which reduces significantly operating costs for airlines.
AIRBUS UK
Airbus UK is responsible for the design and manufacture of the high-technology wings for all Airbus models as well as overall design and supply of the fuel system. For most Airbus models the company is responsible for overall design and supply of landing gear. With a total workforce of around 13,000 people, Airbus UK is based at two sites:- Filton near Bristol where the engineering and design activity takes place along with some manufacturing, and, at Broughton in Flintshire (near Chester) where other major wing component manufacturing and all wing assembly takes place. Each site employs over 6,000 people.
Airbus creates high-technology, high value added employment with around 135,000 UK jobs protected and secured by wing work. Hundreds of UK companies are suppliers to Airbus. With the life expectancy of up to 40 years production for each aircraft model, jobs are long term.
Having the status of Investors in People, Airbus UK offers excellent training programmes, including adult skills training initiatives; young people development; employee training and development and has training partnerships centres at both sites.
We are continually looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our international team of aviation industry leaders.
If you want to find out more about the range of vacancies available at Airbus, please visit www.airbus-careers.com, where you can apply on-line, or apply for the vacancies listed here.
Airbus is an EADS joint Company with BAE Systems. www.airbus.com