Joint venture, risk-sharing partnerships are the norm in today's aerospace industry. The Joint Definition Phase may take place in another country or on another continent and you need engineering personnel on site right now. TDM can provide experienced designers, stress analysts or other engineering professionals to work onsite, augmenting your own personnel. When the project moves back to your own facilities for detail design, our contract personnel can move with the project if required.


Aerospace Engineering

  • Airframe Structures Designers
  • Mechanical Systems Engineers
  • Stress Analysis - Loads
  • FEM Flight Controls Systems Engineers
  • Landing Gear Systems Engineers
  • Avionics Systems Engineers

Aerospace Manufacturing

  • Tool Engineering/Designers
  • Manufacturing Engineers
  • Process Planners
  • Tool Fabrications/Assemblers
  • NC Programming
  • MRB Liaison Engineers
  • Electrical Systems Engineers
  • Aerodynamics - Performance
  • Control And Stability

Spacecraft/Satellite

  • Systems Engineering/RF, IF, IR
  • Circuits/Digital, Analog
  • Microwave Networks/DSP
  • Thermal/Vacuum/Function Test
  • Structures/Mechanisms/Bus
  • Antenna Design/Telemetry

Defense

  • Naval/Land Systems
  • Integration/Test
  • Software
  • Reliability & Maintainability/ILS
  • Systems/Mechanical, Electrical
  • Radar/EW/EMI/EMC/C3
  • Communications/Navigation

Getting experienced people on the job and producing quickly is what contracting is all about. You need someone now! At TDM, we share that sense of urgency with you. Our contract personnel will have the skills you require to get the job done. Our offices and specialty divisions are staffed by experts who speak your language and understand your diverse needs. Further, TDM assumes the administration of various employer obligations. Your managers are relieved of the financial and administrative burdens associated with payroll, federal and provincial taxes, workers' compensation and any additional hiring and personnel costs. When the project is over, or the staffing need reduces, TDM reassigns the people to another client, with no severance or layoff costs to you.
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Hiring an employee is an enormous investment of time and money. There's too much at stake to make the wrong choice. TDM Direct Placement Services understands the complexity of the hiring process. We have over 30 years of experience in recruiting and placing employees in appropriate business settings. The same resources, which make TDM a leader in contract staffing, are applied to helping you hire qualified direct staff. We take the time to understand the qualifications of the job, as well as the particulars of your corporate culture. We recruit, screen and perform background checks on every TDM candidate, to assure they meet your specific requirements. By the time you interview a candidate, he or she is not only qualified, but also excited about the prospect of working for you. By creating the right fit, we help you achieve your hiring objectives while providing solid career opportunities or our applicants. That's the dual commitment we make to you and to them, as partners in the employment process.
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Aerospace Engineering

In order to complete a time-sensitive project on schedule, a major aircraft company turned to TDM to augment their existing engineering staff. Structures design engineers, CAD drafters, stress analysts and weights engineers were provided to work within their engineering department. The TDM personnel were supervised by the clients' technical management.
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Aerospace Manufacturing

An Airframe Manufacturer asked TDM to provide an eighty-five person team to assist with the manufacturing phase of a composite helicopter fuselage program. Team members included manufacturing engineers, tool designers, manufacturing planners, composite toolmakers, composite lay-up technicians, composite sub-assembly and bonding technicians and final assembly fitters. TDM also provided the management and supervisory personnel for each of these groups. The team operated as a cohesive, semi-autonomous unit within the client's facilities.
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These corporations have utilized the services of TDM.

Allied Signal Aerospace
B E Aerospace
Bell Helicopter Textron
BFG-Menasco
Boeing
Bomb
ardier Aerospace
CAE Aviation
Canadair
Chrysler Aerospace
Colt Engineering
Com Dev
Computing Devices
DeHavilland
Eurocopter

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Fleet Industries
Fokker Aircraft
Ford Motor
General Electric
General Motors
Hawker de Havilland
Honeywell
Hughes Aircraft
Hunting Aviation
IPTN
ITP
Lear Jet
Litton Systems
Magellan Aerospace
McDonnell Douglas
Messier - Dowty
Mitsubishi
Motorola
Pratt & Whitney
Raytheon
Rockwell Collins
Rolls Royce Aero Engines
Sextant Avionique
Short Bros.
Spar Aerospace
Telesat
Westinghouse
Westland Aerospace