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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles
170 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 July 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
The truck manufacturer Renault Trucks (Volvo Group) has announced to hire 170 employees on permanent contracts in 2023 at its site in Blainville-sur-Orne (Calvados). They will recruit in welding, painting and logistics. The management explained that it needed to recruit new staff to keep up with the high level of production. The site is the first in Europe to mass-produce electric trucks.
The company recruits mainly from the local labour market, and offers salaries that are on average 30% above the minimum wage. This recruitment drive should bring the number of employees to over 2,000, including a large number of temporary workers. The total current workforce can be estimated at 1,830 employees.
Two previous recruitments were recorded in the ERM Database, with 100 job creations in 2018 (FR-Renault-Truck-2018) and 100 job creations in 2021 (FR-Renault-Truck-2021).
Eurofound (2023), Renault Trucks, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 109306, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/109306.
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