Bombardier and NBAA Spirit Award Winner Barrington Irving to Collaborate on Aircraft Technician Recruitment Initiative
October 23 2019 - 6:58PM
Bombardier today announced it will be collaborating with NBAA
Spirit Award Winner Captain Barrington Irving to develop a
comprehensive program that will fuel the talent pipeline at
Bombardier’s five U.S. based service centers. Over the coming
months, Bombardier and Captain Irving will work to develop a
comprehensive curriculum and outreach program to inspire the next
generation of A&P technicians across America.
“We are committed to ensuring our customers receive the best
customer experience possible and this new relationship with NBAA
Spirit Award Winner Captain Barrington Irving will help us develop
a solid training base of technicians across our growing service
centre network,” said Jean-Christophe Gallagher, Vice President and
General Manager, Customer Experience, Bombardier Business Aircraft.
“We are honored to be working closely with such a dynamic and
inspirational pilot, educator and true ambassador for aviation and
aerospace in North America and around the world.”
Captain Barrington Irving was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew
up in inner-city Miami, Florida. Growing up, he focused his
attention on college football but instead chose a career in
aviation. This path led in the culmination of his 97-day solo
flight around the globe in a single-engine piston aircraft – making
him the youngest pilot to achieve the feat. He then formed
Experience Aviation, based at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami Dade
County, empowering young people to follow careers in aviation. With
his “Flying Classroom” initiative, Captain Irving has inspired
countless students around the world to pursure their passion of
learning to fly and learn to maintain and repair aircraft.
“I am thrilled to be working with Bombardier to further my goal
of educating young people about the wonders of a career in aviation
or aerospace,” said Captian Barrington Irving. “Bombardier is a
respected aerospace leader with a unique entreprenerial spirit that
I admire and respect. Aligning our vision for the future is a
natural extension of what I have been trying to accomplish
throughout my career.”
This new initiative is the latest in a cascade of customer
services announcements over the past several months aimed at
enhancing the Bombardier customer service footprint in the U.S. and
around the world. With major service center expansions ongoing in
both Miami Opa-Locka and Singapore, the development of a new Line
Maintenance Stations in Teterboro, New Jersey and Van Nuys,
California, Bombardier continues to show its ongoing commitment to
providing the most comprehensive onsite, mobile and
aircraft-on-ground resolution services in the industry.
Bombardier Aviation is currently recruiting hundreds of
positions worldwide including aircraft technicians, customer
response team technicians, engineers, production support,
supervisors and more. To explore open positions, visit
careers.bombardier.com.
About Bombardier With over 68,000 employees,
Bombardier is a global leader in the transportation industry,
creating innovative and game-changing planes and trains. Our
products and services provide world-class transportation
experiences that set new standards in passenger comfort, energy
efficiency, reliability and safety.
Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Bombardier has production and
engineering sites in 28 countries as well as a broad portfolio of
products and services for the business aviation, commercial
aviation and rail transportation markets. Bombardier shares are
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ended December 31, 2018, Bombardier posted revenues of $16.2
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