This paper hopes to give a reference to maintenance students and young people engaged in maintenance work. The framework of the article is as follows:
1, preface
2. The choice of employment units
3. Job choice
4. How to create excellence?
5. From Excellence to Excellence
Step 6: the ending
1, preface
In the annual graduate recruitment season, most colleges and universities will hold a grand recruitment conference, and the graduating students will generally find their future companies in this harvest autumn.
Years of work experience tells us that many students just want to have a job, and many maintenance workers just regard this job as a career to support their families. In reality, middle school students are lost in learning and maintenance, and young maintenance workers are lost in repetitive work schedules.
Here is a general introduction and suggestion on the career planning route of locomotive workers, hoping that everyone will have a clear understanding of their future struggle direction.
2. The choice of employment units
The choice of employment units for students majoring in aircraft maintenance should be relatively large. According to the current employment situation, there are the following categories to choose from:
First, traditionally hired airlines usually specialize in aircraft maintenance systems. In recent years, with the rapid expansion of airline fleet, the manpower gap of aircraft maintenance team is very large;
Followed by MRO and airport ground handling: In recent years, with the rapid development of large-scale employment, especially MRO industry, China currently has the largest number of MRO clusters in the world, and even Boeing has rushed to the China market; Airport ground handling, an enterprise that cannot be ignored, is not worried about business as a landlord.
3. Parts Maintenance 145 Enterprise: The expansion of China's fleet has brought about the rapid development of 145 maintenance organizations. Compared with MRO and airline platforms, the space for personal development is inferior, but there is a big difference between the speed of personal growth and the degree of attention paid by enterprises, and there is no obvious difference in treatment.
Fourth, general aviation: the spring of navigation has quietly arrived. Although many navigation companies are generally profitable or even losing money, the demand for maintenance in this industry continues to increase. In the next few years, the number of maintenance work will be divided into three parts by airlines and MRO.
Fifth, aviation manufacturing enterprises: it may not be easy to get into the aircraft, but the specialty of manufacturing parts, PMA and other equipment and repairing aircraft can also be considered.
VI. Aviation Training 147 Institution: Training may require more skilled crew members, which is also indispensable for 147;
Seventh, aviation equipment sales enterprises: On the surface, if you study aircraft maintenance and do sales, it is a waste of resources. In fact, many salesmen who do well in the industry are from aircraft maintenance, from aircraft leasing business to ordinary air material sales;
Eighth, other aviation-related enterprises.
3. Job choice
Technology roadmap
Technical route is the professional route chosen by most aviation enterprises and MRO maintenance workers. Routes can be roughly divided into apprentices, technicians, assistant engineers, engineers, senior engineers and experts. Of course, each company has different names for these stages.
The most important criterion for employers to consider these titles is working years. Unless some employees have very high skills and can bring direct profit growth to the company, they have to win the favor of senior leaders in order to get some preferential treatment that spans years.
In addition, in addition to years, education and English level are also important criteria for considering technical titles. However, don't think that as long as you have a high degree and good English, you don't care about your technical level, and you can get the corresponding technical title by fooling around all day for a few years. You know, your leader is always watching you. If you are a freeloader, the company can't give you a chance.
Management route
Management route is an employee promotion channel parallel to technical route. The management route is roughly divided into the positions of team leader, supervisor, manager, director and general manager.
Compared with the technical route, the competition of management route is fierce and cruel. The competition of management route can stand out, not only by good technology and long life, but also by working hard on "software". Personal soft power, such as communication ability and coordination ability, will play a greater role in the competition of management positions.
In addition, in addition to the soft and hard strength mentioned above, luck is also an important factor in the success or failure of job competition. Therefore, I would like to remind the graduates who are eager for success to choose the management route carefully.
Other directions
Maintenance workers have no choice but management and technology? The answer is no, in fact, for the locomotive industry chain, any link will become one of the choices of locomotive workers.
For example, you can join the Civil Aviation Administration as an inspector, PMA factory as a support engineer, OEM factory as a customer representative, and even join Boeing, Airbus, Comac of China and other companies in China to enter the field of aircraft design and manufacturing.
These will be opportunities in the career of maintenance workers. Of course, these opportunities are for excellent maintenance workers.
4. How to build excellent maintenance workers?
The above explains all kinds of career route planning, and also introduces other development opportunities of locomotive industry. However, whether it is the management route or the technical route or other employment opportunities in the locomotive industry chain, the target of choice is excellent locomotive workers. Those lazy and ambitious people are unlikely to get good development opportunities. Rewarding efforts is the truth of any industry.
The core of maintenance is technology, whether it is the management of aviation enterprises and MRO or the technical route, or other employment options in the industrial chain. Cultivating excellent technical ability is the most critical link on the road of career development.
After the graduates majoring in maintenance are employed, they should first study hard with the master, master the standard construction methods of this major within two years, and then apply for the corresponding CAAC basic license.
After getting the license, you can generally get the opportunity to learn the model, and strive to thoroughly understand the system principle of a model within about 2 months. For the current mainstream models, the main design routes of each system are basically the same. If you learn one model, you can quickly master other models, which is why FAA licensing is not linked to model learning.
After getting the vehicle license and basic maintenance license, that is, working for about 4-5 years, you will really face the problem of career route selection. Because you are diligent every day, your leader will talk to you at this time to see if you want to choose management or technical route; At the same time, you may be found in other departments of the company, and you may be contacted by an OEM. All these opportunities will appear in front of you.
If you stay in the company and choose the technical route, then you need to participate in special skills training and participate in the challenges that the technical route will face, such as new process technology development, troubleshooting support, reliability data collation and analysis, design and writing of complex engineering schemes, etc.
When you can easily complete these challenges, congratulations, you have become a veritable maintenance expert. Of course, that's usually after 10 years. If you choose the management route, you will begin to understand the methods of production process management and optimization, learn the connotation of team building, the elements of safety and quality management, and management methods involving engineering management, reliability management and even company strategic development management.
If you choose to leave your job and work in the upstream part of the locomotive industry chain with more intense competition, you must master the technology involved in the selected job more skillfully and learn how to combine technology with management, marketing and service. Only in this way can you be competent for your new job and develop.
5. From Excellence to Excellence
It is not difficult for a maintenance worker to be excellent, but it is not enough to have the above suggestions from excellent to excellent. From the author's point of view, it is actually a research topic, but according to some ideas of Excellence, we have the following understanding:
First of all, you need to regard maintenance as your lifelong career. Only in this way can you have a good chance. Whether you become an expert in technology or a big brother in management in the future, it is difficult to achieve your Excellence without this profession.
Secondly, life also needs to have faith, and people with faith will be followed. Crews rarely establish their religious beliefs, but there are still such people. He may be an ordinary sailor around us, but it is these ordinary and simple beliefs that always impress people around him.
Finally, the core is that the realm of Excellence still needs professional knowledge that ordinary people don't have. He is probably the most serious and responsible expert. Perhaps the most passionate and creative of excellent managers.
An excellent person is not just a person struggling, he is influencing and inspiring a group of people;
An outstanding person will break through from the realm of completely adapting to the environment to the realm of changing the environment, and innovation will be his symbol;
Excellent people are definitely the most diligent people in excellent groups and the most persistent people in excellent groups. There are no secrets and shortcuts from Excellence to Excellence, only more diligence and persistence.
Step 6: the ending
Having said that, we have to go back to two cores: 1. Develop excellent maintenance skills. 2. firmly believe that heaven rewards diligence. Finally, I wish the graduates of the 20th15th National Aircraft Maintenance Team success in their careers, and I also wish the aircraft maintenance buddies in the world to build excellent themselves, pursue Excellence for the ultimate life and do their best for aircraft safety.
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