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AB OUT HISDE S AT

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILES,

TRAINING AND QUALITY

Excellence in methodologies and procedures, Excellence in providing
together with quality internal resources able to value-add services to its
act in terms of best practice, lie at the basis of clients has, from its foun-
Hisdesat’s commitment to excellence. The mul- dation, been the company’s
tidisciplinary staff is highly qualified. 70% of the main mission. Excellence
staff are higher education graduates (especially rests on the premise of the
in the branches of aerospace engineering and quality of those services.
telecommunications), 18% hold degrees and 12%
are administrative staff. Hisdesat has had an ISO
9001 Quality Management
System in place since 2008.
This system is certified by
AENOR and is recognised
both in Spain and abroad.

THE TEAM

After an ambitious phase of recruitment to meet the requirements of
thecompany’s forthcoming projects, the current staff complement is 44 em-
ployees, based either at the company’s head office or in the Satellite Opera-
The staff of tions Control Centres in Arganda (Madrid) and Maspalomas (Gran
Canaria).
Hisdesat has Over the past three years, the workforce has grown rapidly, largely to
meet the requirements for the development of the company’s new
grown by 37.5% programmes and projects related to the Earth Observation Program-
me (PNOTS) with PAZ and INGENIO. During this last year, this growth
to meet new rate has been 37.5%.
In addition to its own staff, Hisdesat indirectly employs more than 30
challenges professionals including operators and maintenance personnel at the
satellite control stations in Arganda (Madrid) and Maspalomas (Gran
Canaria).
It also contracts a similar number of employees in the Ottawa (Cana-
da) and Mount Jackson (Virginia, USA) control stations, through its
investee company Xtar LLC.

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