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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.2 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
180 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 January 2021
Employment effect (start)
31 January 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
Bombardier, an international transportation producer, has announced it will be hiring 180 employees for its facility in Bruges. The facility is specialised in the production of trains and other railway equipment. The hiring effort follows on from a large order by the national Belgian railway organisation NMBS-SNCB. One hundred employees of the hired personnel will receive indefinite contracts, the remaining 80 2-year fixed-term contracts. In total, the Bombardier group invested € 6 million in the facility. The company currently employs about 500 people.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2021), Bombardier, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 103201, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103201.
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