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Jaguar Land Rover to recruit hundreds of new engineers for eco-Jags
As the Birmingham Post reported:
Jaguar Land Rover is launching a huge recruitment drive to find up to 600 new employees, less than a month after a £1.15 billion takeover by Tata Motors of India was completed. The luxury carmaker last night said the bulk of the recruits would be engineers needed to develop a new generation of cleaner, more eco-friendly vehicles. But the company, which is based at Gaydon in Warwickshire, also said it had "a significant number" of key vacancies in its purchasing, finance and human resources departments. These vacancies are believed to have been created by the departure of JLR’s previous owner, Ford. The key focus, however, is on its need to recruit engineers to work on new technology and product development programmes. JLR said it was investing £700 million in sustainable technologies to improve the environmental performance of its vehicles and was looking for experienced, degree-educated engineers to work on a variety of "ground-breaking" projects. In addition, it is launching a programme aimed at recruiting more than 80 graduate trainees as well as 60 apprentices under an Advanced Modern Apprenticeship scheme announced in March. The company currently employs some 16,000 people at its car production plants at Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Halewood in Liverpool and its product development centres at Gaydon and Whitley in Coventry.
Birmingham Post, 18 June 2008
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