Kiera Young, Director of Operations
MY RÉSUMÉ
Business skills
Standard Aero has a really good 'first line managers' training development plan that lays out in detail, the skills and courses that you need move ahead.
You need a basic understanding of financial and managerial accounting to understand the things that you're being measured on as a company: sales, return on investment and gross margin.
The ability to analyze data is also very important. You need to look at how long it takes you to do something, identify trends and be able to read that information as it comes from the shop floor.