Kickmaker, a design and industrialization agency for high-tech products like drones and medical equipment, plans to double its workforce this year.

The co-founder of the company, invited Monday in La France Bouge on Europe 1, explained that he wanted to recruit 150 engineers and technicians, with varied profiles.

Despite the crisis, some companies continue to grow and recruit.

This is the case with Kickmaker, an agency for the design and industrialization of high-tech products, in particular drones, robots and even medical equipment.

The Paris-based company even plans to double its workforce this year and hire nearly 150 engineers and technicians, all on permanent contracts.

Kickmaker, created in 2016 and which has offices in Lyon and Shenzhen, China, will also open in Nantes next April.

Vincent Despatin, co-founder of Kickmaker, explained the profiles sought by his company, Monday in the show

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on Europe 1.

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Young people, but also more experienced profiles

"We are recruiting trained engineers or technicians with initial experience who want to validate knowledge in our major trades, which are mechanics, mechatronics and on-board software," he explains.

Kickmaker also wants to recruit salespeople, even if the bulk of hiring involves engineers.

"They are engineers by training. We tend to complete training by training on the job on hyper innovative objects."

As for the profiles sought, they are "young people who want to acquire this industrial competence, but also the not so young to be efficient and to be able to ensure transmission".

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150 positions, all on permanent contracts

Another clarification, which is important: all these hires will be on permanent contracts.

"Our job is to develop our commercial offer according to our production capacity. The very value of our company rests on our engineers. For that, we must retain and train them, and work on their know-how", explains Vincent. Despatin.

If its main office is based in Paris, Kickmaker hopes to double or even triple its workforce in Lyon, where 20 employees currently work.

In Nantes, where the company is starting from zero, it hopes to have around twenty employees by the end of the year.

If you are interested in these vacancies, you can write to: contact@kickmaker.net.