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Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest; Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest; Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
Location of affected unit(s)
Brussels
Sector
Transportation / Storage 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49.3 - Other passenger land transport 49.31 - Scheduled passenger transport by road
750 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
The intercommunal transport company for Brussels, Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles – Maatschappij voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel (STIB-MIVB), has announced its plans to hire between 750 and 800 additional members of staff in 2016. Around 100 of these new staff members will be tram drivers, some 200 will be bus drivers and a few dozen will be employed to drive metro trains. There will also be roles made available which will focus on extending the public transport network across Belgium thus requiring engineers and IT technicians amongst other roles.
STIB-MIVB advises that those interested in new roles upload their CVs to the company website or attend the various recruitment sessions which are being rolled out.
Sources
23 December 2015: Le Soir
Citation
Eurofound (2015), STIB-MIVB, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 86070, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86070.