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1.4. GROWING WITH A

HIGHLY QUALIFIED

WORKFORCE

The workforce has Hisdesat’s staff comprises maintenance personnel at the sate-
a team of highly qualified
llite control stations in Arganda (Ma-
grown by 51% professionals, with 70% drid) and Maspalomas (Gran Canaria).
this year holding post-graduate It also contracts a similar number of
degrees (mainly in aeros-
pace and telecommuni- employees in the Ottawa (Canada)
cations engineering), a and Mount Jackson (Virginia, USA)
further 18% being graduates and 12% control stations, through its subsi-
having administrative training. diary Xtar LLC.

After an ambitious phase of recruit-
ment in order to meet the requi-
rements for forthcoming projects,
the current staff complement is 60
employees, an increase of 51% over
2016. All of the new appointees are
highly qualified (85% are post-gra-
duates) and have been offered per-
manent posts. They are based either
at the company’s head office or at the
Satellite Operations Control Centres
in Arganda (Madrid) and Maspalomas
(Gran Canaria).

67% of the staff are male, and 33%
female
In recent years, the workforce has
grown rapidly, largely to meet the re-
quirements for the development of
the company’s new programmes and
projects related to the Earth Obser-
vation Programme (PNOTS) with PAZ
and INGENIO.

In addition to its own staff, Hisdesat
indirectly employs more than 30 pro- TERRASAR-X SATELLITE IMAGE - MOUNT BATUR INDONESIA
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fessionals including operators and

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