The group, which has 10,000 employees in the five sites in Romania, ended last year with 3.5 billion lei (EUR772 million), an increase of 20% on the previous year.
“Delphi routinely evaluates all its operations and makes the necessary adjustments to reflect current business conditions. Our staffing adjustments depend on evolving market conditions and human resource availability in each region. Current activities at the sites are to support the planned schedules of the European car manufacturers we supply,” Delphi officials told ZF.
The profit margin improved from 5.9% in 2014 to 6.5% of the revenue in 2015, with Delphi posting RON228 million net profit from the three entities which report financial results in Romania.
Delphi arrived in Romania more than 18 years ago and currently has four manufacturing facilities (three of which are electrical/electronic architecture –E/EA facilities in Sannicolau Mare and Ineu in Arad County and Moldova Noua – Caras-Severin County), an E/EA engineering center and prototype facility in Arad and a facility that makes pumps and injectors for common rail systems in Iasi.
“As for the following period, we adjust employment according to the site needs and keep hiring people for different positions at our E/EA plants in Ineu, Sannicolau Mare and Moldova Noua. At the moment we have job openings for shop floor operators, engineers, as well as highly experienced professionals with automotive background. Today the Delphi group in Romania employs more than 10,000 people at five sites. The recruitment process continues per our business plan.”
Delphi is also looking for engineers for the center it opened in Arad in 2012.
“In order to create synergies between prototype production and product process designing for our Eastern European sites, Delphi opened the prototype plant at the Arad site in 2015.”
Automotive component manufacturers, especially those with facilities in central and western Romania are experiencing a severe personnel shortage due to migration abroad and to people not wanting to work for low wages. This is why some employers are considering opening new plants in neighboring countries like Ukraine and Serbia.
Asked whether they planned to open new facilities in other countries in the region or have already done it, Delphi officials said the group “routinely evaluates manufacturing alternatives to support its global customer base” and in order to protect the confidentiality of its customer programs and Delphi business strategy, it does not disclose information about “our future business plans, level of production or details of our customer programs.” (EUR1=RON4.5320)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)