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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
13 June 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The German producer of automotive components IFA Powertrain Poland has announced that it will create 120 new jobs at its factory in Ujazd (the Katowice Special Economic Zone, Poland) by the end of 2019. The company is looking for production and warehouse staff, including machine operators, machine operator assistants and storekeepers. The company will hire both experienced employees and candidates without experience in the industrial production.
IFA Powertrain is a part of automotive company IFA Rotorion; the company produces drive shafts and car accessories. IFA Powertrain has factories in Germany, USA and China. In Poland, the company has been operating since 2017. Currently, the company employs 460 people.
Eurofound (2019), IFA Powetrain Polska, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 97957, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97957.
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