Saab Kockums

Type
Business expansion
Country
Sweden
Region
Södra Sverige; Sydsverige; Blekinge län
Location of affected unit(s)
Karlskrona
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
30.1 - Building of ships and boats
30.13 - Building of military ships and vessels
250 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
1 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2017
Foreseen end date

Description

The Swedish defence industry company Saab is expanding its activity in its dockyard in Karlskrona and will hire 250 new employees to work on a new submarine currently under production. Recruitment has already started with 100 new employees hired in 2017. Another 150 posts will be filled during 2018, and 100 more in 2019. Posts will be open at least for tin-smiths, CNC-operators and service engineers.

Saab bought the dockyard from the German ThyssenKrupp in 2014 and has more than doubled the number of staff since then, from 700 to 1,500.

Sources

  • 1 November 2017: Processnet.se
  • 1 November 2017: Sjöfartstidningen

Citation

Eurofound (2017), Saab Kockums, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 92403, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/92403.