Most local Alcatel-Lucent employees (about 1,000) work in the research and development center in Timisoara, its second largest in Europe by staff numbers after the center in France.
“We now have 100 positions open in Romania and the target for the end of the year is 1,600 to 1,650 employees,” Iulia Iliescu, Alcatel-Lucent’s human resources manager for South-East Europe, which includes seven countries, told ZF.
“Most available positions are in the wireless department and rest in the services area.”
Besides the R&D center, organized into divisions by technology – wireless, IP platforms, fixed access and IP routing and transportation, Alcatel-Lucent also has a center in Timisoara that provides support and maintenance services to global clients. Romanian engineers provide support to some of the largest telecoms in the world, such as AT&T and Verizon in the US, British Telecom (UK), KPN (Netherlands) and Telefonica (Spain).
Alcatel-Lucent posted 388 million lei (EUR87 million) revenue and RON20 million net profit in 2013, according to the latest Finance Ministry data available. Its main competitors on the market of telecom equipment and solutions are Ericsson and Huawei, both in Romania and in the rest of the world.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)