ANNnews – Redacción
15th September 2022
This time ANNnews interviews Iñaki González Trejo, a Berantevilla workmate with 28 years of experience as assembler.
ANNnews: Iñaki, how did you get to the world of aeronautics?
Iñaki González: I started working at Fibertecnic, even before Gamesa Aeronáutica was established. When my working relationship with this company ended, what is now Aernnova Miñano was being incorporated. Aernnova contacted me and several workmates who had worked at Fibertecnic and offered us to join the project. We took an Operational Aaerospace Training and began our journey in the aeronautical world, which in my case is now almost twenty-eight years.
ANNnews: In all these years at Aernnova, what has been your career trajectory?
Iñaki González: The truth is that in so many years I have been able to see a lot of different models. After a brief stint at Fibertecnic I joined what it was Hegal Tecnologías Aeronáuticas in Miñano, where I worked until Hegal merged with Moasa and Fuasa and the activity moved to Berantevilla in 2010, creating Aernnova Aeroestructuras Álava, to which I still belong. During these 28 years we have always been dedicated to the final assembly of aerostructures and I have participated in different models. I started with the wing of the Embraer 145 and also participated in the assembly of the SJ30. Next, I spent many years collaborating in the assembly of the fuselage of the Embraer 170/190. In addition, I have been able to collaborate in the production of Section 19 of the Airbus A380 and in the manufacture of the Beluga. And occasionally, in other aeronautical programs developed by Aernnova Aeroestrucutras Álava.
ANNnews: What has been the most complicated job you have carried out throughout your professional career?
Iñaki González: Probably the assembly of the SJ30. Its dimensions, the tools to be used and the plans available at that time made it the most complicated assembly in which I have participated.
ANNnews: The digitalization and automation of processes has reached the factories, what do you think?
Iñaki González: I think that adaptation to the digital environment is necessary in our industry as it is in all other industries. In the aerostructures activity, the most significant element in this sense has been the incorporation of Delmia as a production management system. It is a tool that allows us to digitalize production orders, guarantee the tracking of operations and indicate the estimated time of each process. We have been working with it for a few years now and it has been an improvement compared to previous system, which was based mainly on paper support. Obviously, like any system, it can still be improved on a day-to-day basis.
ANNnews: What does your day-to-day work consist of?
Well, I am an aeronautical assembler and, my day is focused on the manufacturing of the corresponding model. To guarantee that the work is done with the highest quality, ensuring deadlines for the end customer. And although the products we manufacture are serialized, every day there are new developments or different challenges to face because life in the plant is very dynamic and the demands of customers are ever greater.
ANNnews: What lessons have you learned over the years?
During these 28 years, learning has been and continues to be daily, both professionally (tools, tools, parts, etc.) and personally (colleagues, managers, customers…). Learning never ends. I have learned a lot, either by doing the work myself or by seeing it in my colleagues.
