UK businesses like Vector Aerospace have traditionally been essential to the country and the local community, as an employer, providing training, work and opportunity for generations. Much has changed, and with its mainstay MOD business diminished, this is a business that must move fast to be globally-competitive in the private, commercial sector of aviation, whilst ensuring that it has the skills to meet the challenges of today’s unpredictability and tomorrow’s opportunity. Jason Spiller interviews Claire Silvester, HR Director.