Partnering with PKL: Recruiting and Qualifying Personnel
December 6, 2023
PKL’s uses a multi-phase national recruitment effort to recruit and retain qualified applicants to support our contracts. The PKL Human Resources (HR) team has extensive experience recruiting, screening, selecting, hiring, assigning, administering, and retaining qualified personnel who have the skill sets of those required for each contract. The PKL HR Department has successfully completed dozens of phase-in transitions world-wide with quality, integrity, and affordability.
PKL leverages our incumbent employees’ substantial aircraft-specific knowledge and experience. With a fully trained and manned maintenance, operations, logistics, and training program, PKL minimizes risk and increases benefits to our customers through an uninterrupted contract startup and smooth continuation of services.
Occasions will arise for unforeseen personnel replacements. When these occur, our dedicated recruiting team uses a phased recruiting approach to acquire new personnel. Our recruiting team ensures the qualifications meet or exceed the mandatory skill requirements and qualifications detailed in each Performance Work Statement (PWS). The Table below outlines our three-phased progressive recruiting process.
PKL also uses a variety of recruiting sources, as outlined below, to recruit quality personnel.
PKL always provides the best-qualified candidates for the contracts. Our hiring standards are determined by using an in-depth pre-employment screening process for all potential employees. Each resume is screened by our HR Manager and Recruiter on a first-round basis to verify the applicant meets all required position qualifications including on-the-job experience, training requirements, and has an excellent command of English reading and writing skills:
Qualified resumes are then passed to PKL’s Contract Manager who interviews the candidate to determine the candidate’s suitability to work with the customer and to verify the applicant’s qualifications. These qualifications include:
- Have held the required technical/functional designation for the position, with experience matched to the position requirements
- Hold or readily obtain any special certifications, such as aircrew currency and type rating and NAS 410 certification for NDI and welding
- Each candidate will have the experience, technical and communication skills necessary to provide a thorough understanding of the maintenance and training objectives
- Any Team PKL employee being hired who will sign off a Red X symbol shall have a minimum of five years of aircraft maintenance experience including a minimum of one year of maintenance experience on any aircraft which the maintenance task was performed
- Candidate personnel applying for aircrew or simulator/platform instructor positions are further screened by PKL’s Lead Pilot/Lead Simulator Instructor to ensure the candidate possesses and demonstrates the highest qualifications and attributes.
To learn how we can work together please visit us at www.pklservices.com or email us at kimberly.robling@pklservices.com