Latécoère announces the creation of a new control team that will be responsible for increasing visitor numbers, operational excellence and profitability.
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“When it comes to our priorities for the future – assembling on time the developing production volumes our consumers want while facing the demanding situations of a challenging environment in the supply chain – we want the right leadership setup to succeed given that we now have 6,000 workers in 14 countries. “said Greg Huttner, CEO of the Latécoère Group. ” This new team configuration will ensure that our business clusters, which represent our production sites, are at the heart of the executive committee’s agenda, and that critical technical and global objectives are on the table for assistance that the business sets to reach its highest point of performance. ” Array Latécoère is moving towards a new organization to focus more on consumers, factories and suppliers, structured around 4 Business Units, Global and Support Functions.
Our new business sets will have the function of fulfilling the wishes of our customers from start to finish, adding the function of
– Aerostructures Americas, led by Stéphane Molinier, will manage our detailed, composite and meeting sites in Hermosillo, Mexico, as well as our two sites in Canada (Burlington, Delta) and our Brazilian site in Jacarei – Aerostructures Europe, led by Wolfgang Konrad, will lead our Sites that generate a combination of detailed, composite and assembled complex parts in Europe – Gimont (France), Montredon (France), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Prague (Czech Republic) and central operations in Toulouse-Périole (France) – led by Samuel Begué. Interconnect systems targeting EWIS harnesses and avionics racks with sites in France (Labège, Liposthey and Vendargues), India (Belagavi), Morocco (Casablanca), Tunisia (Fouchana) and Mexico (Hermosillo) – Special Products and Services (SPS) Targeting Visitor Facilities High-tech aerostructures and interconnections added price as well as specialized and complex technological responses (MADES, CT and Advanced Wireless and Video Systems).
Latecoere has unrivalled industrial and technical know-how across aerostructures, doors, complex parts, harness and racks deep in our global technical function teams. These functions which are at the heart of our business today and working on the aerospace solutions for the future will now form part of the executive committee to ensure they are fully synchronized with the Operational Units:
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“Having worked in this business for over 30 years, I am very happy to say that this will be the first time we have raised this point of technical expertise with the organization’s executive committee and also made sure to take full credit for our technical wisdom. within the other teams and places,” said Thierry Eftymiades.
Our helping purposes play an important role in ensuring that we can function well and successfully as a group. In particular, we are strengthening our focus on operational finance and making an investment in next-generation virtual and knowledge responses to support our frontline groups. with greater equipment and automation achieving greater efficiency:
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Today, Latécoère has more than 6,000 painters in 14 countries who paint day in and day out to produce what our consumers want, on time and with the highest quality imaginable. Now that we have emerged from the depths of COVID and the demanding situations arising from the historic drop in production levels, we are now targeting an operational acceleration forged for expansion supported by a 40% expansion in 2022 and 40% in the first part of 2023, with further expansion. Expansion is mandatory given the heavy backlog of aircraft to be delivered. To achieve this, we want to replace our team culture, building on Latécoère’s strengths, but also recognizing that we want a new mindset to succeed in this environment.
That’s why we put much more emphasis on a relentless focus on what issues for our customers: lower and clearer priorities, a “right first time” mentality that is imperative for quality and performance. operational excellence and greater collaboration to make an impact across the board. Sites and Features.
The Executive Committee builds on a mix of company leaders with deep Latecoere experience (100 years across the team) and new talent with deep industry experience (primarily across aerospace and automotive sectors).
To highlight recent new joiners to the team:
“I am delighted that Gary, Jean-Luc, Cecilia, François, and Wolfgang will be joining the leadership team and together with the other members of the Executive Committee, we will reach world class levels of performance across quality, on time delivery and cost, whilst continue to develop our engineering capabilities to establish our position as the world’s best supplier of aerostructures and interconnection systems for the future of flight” said Greg Huttner, Chief Executive Officer.
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