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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.3 - Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
5,500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 February 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
The international high-technology group Safran, specialised in aerospace, defense and security, announced its intention to recruit 5,500 employees worldwide (including 2,000 in France) by 2016. Safran will recruit 900 engineers and qualified workers and technicians to keep up with its production increase of civil aircraft motors.
According to Jean-Luc Bérard, the HR Director of Safran, the group has recruited 7700 employees worldwide in 2015 for a net job creation of 1,000 taking into account natural departures and departures to retirement. In 2013, the ERM has reported 6,000 job creations worldwide.
Safran employs 70,000 people worldwide.
Sources
12 February 2016: Journal de l'aviation
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Safran, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 86599, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86599.
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