Jet Aviation
Steve Sommerfeld is an experienced professional in the manufacturing and engineering sectors, currently serving as the Manager of Sheet Metal Shop Production and Production Project Manager at Jet Aviation since March 2009. Previously, Steve worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for Airbus from April 2005 to February 2009 and held the position of Technical Support Coordinator at BKB AG from April 2004 to March 2005. Additionally, experience includes serving as a Logistics Administrator at Citti GK and a Meister in Mechanical Maintenance at KNG mbH Steinkohlekraftwerk Rostock. Steve holds an Eidg. anerkannter Ausweis für Berufsbilder/innen from Berufsbildner.ch, a degree in Wirtschaftsingenieur with a focus on Production Systems from the University of Applied Sciences of Stralsund, and is a certified Industrial Master with specialization in Metal.
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Jet Aviation
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Jet Aviation as a maintenance organization when he bought the former Globe Air hangars in Basel, Switzerland and opened the first maintenance facility for business aircraft in Europe almost 50 years ago.Two years later, he expanded the company and entered a new line of business by acquiring the Pilatus maintenance and airline handlingoperations in Zurich and Geneva. Then realizing that customers may likely still require transport while their own aircraft are being maintained, he also began offering aircraft charter and management services to European and Middle Eastern customers.During the 1970s, Jet Aviation started opening facilities abroad, beginning with a maintenance facility in Germany and an FBO in Jeddah. In 1977, it began offering completions and refurbishment services at Basel, completing its first ever V.I.P.-outfitted aircraft – a Convair 880M — that same year. Today, Jet Aviation Basel is one of the largest independent completions center in the world.Continuing its expansion in Europe and the Middle East throughout the 1980s, Jet Aviation also successfully entered the U.S. market, making it the first global player in the business aviation industry. Consolidation and steady growth marked the 1990s, with the opening of a maintenance and FBO facility in Singapore in 1995 and an aircraft management and charter firm in Hong Kong, China in 2000.As pioneers of private business aviation, the Hirschman family built Jet Aviation up over nearly 40 years from a small local maintenance operation to a highly reputed global business aviation services provider, before deciding to sell the family-run business to Permira Funds, a private European equity firm, in 2005. Three years later, Permira sold Jet Aviation to General Dynamics on November 5, 2008. Jet Aviation currently operates as an independent business unit within the General Dynamics Aerospace Group and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.