Build what has to fly, and prove it.
Aerospace runs on decade-long programmes, certification measured in years, and a specialist pool that shrinks with every retirement. Nothing ships until it's proven. Akkar recruits across the aircraft and the supply chain behind it, engineering, certification, MRO, and the industrial capability that keeps programmes moving.
Long programmes, shrinking benches.
Aerospace hiring isn't a headcount problem. It's a continuity problem, programmes outlast careers, and the people who hold certification knowledge are leaving faster than they're being replaced.
The experience curve is breaking
A generation of certification and airworthiness specialists is retiring. Their replacements need years of programme exposure before they can sign anything. That gap can't be closed by hiring quickly, only by hiring correctly.
Rate ramp is a supply chain problem
Order books are full; the supply chain isn't ready. Tier-ones and SMEs need industrialisation, quality, and supplier development talent as urgently as the primes need engineers.
New propulsion is rewriting the skill set
Hydrogen, hybrid-electric, and SAF programmes need engineers who understand both traditional airworthiness and unfamiliar energy systems. Very few people have both.
Expertise across the aircraft and the supply chain.
We recruit across primes, tier-ones, and the specialist suppliers behind them, plus the adjacent markets where comparable engineering has already been proven.
The people behind every certified programme.
From chief engineers to the specialists who close the certification basis, these are the families we recruit for most.
Built around how aerospace programmes hire.
The engagement models we use most in aerospace. Each links to the full solution page.
An exclusive, committed search for hires that are too important to leave to chance or volume.
A focused search engagement for defined roles where speed matters, but relevance matters more.
A fast, focused route to contractors and interim professionals who can keep technical programmes moving.
A dedicated Akkar recruiter working inside your business, for as long as the hiring need requires.
More on keeping long programmes moving.
Certification, rate ramp, and propulsion, explored by the team living in this market daily.
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