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Professional Services Scientific, Architectural And Engineering Technical Activities Architectural And Engineering Activities; Technical Testing And Analysis 71.12 - Engineering activities and related technical consultancy
3,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 March 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
IT company Altran has announced the recruitment of 3,000 employees in France in 2018. Altran group employs about 33,000 people worldwide and has over 9,000 in France. The job positions are for consultants who will provide services to Altran clients in the various engineering fields the company is engaged in: automotive, aerospatial, energy, wellbeing and telecoms.
In 2017, Altran took over a site of Alcatel-Lucent in 2017 (see Factsheet). In 2013, the group had announced a restructuring of its workforce in Toulouse (see Factsheet). In 2011, the recruitment of an additional 400 employees was reported in the media (see Factsheet).
Sources
6 March 2018: Alliancy.fr
6 March 2018: Altran (Press release)
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Altran Technologies, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 93576, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93576.
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