“We’re still hiring at our electrical/electronic architecture plants in Ineu and Sannicolau Mare,” said Agnieska Przymusinka, head of communication with Delphi Central and Eastern Europe told ZF.
Delphi expects to hire several hundred people in the next few months and the exact staffing needs depend on the developments on the market and the availability of workforce in the region, she added.
Delphi’s number of employees in Romania peaked in 2011 when it was close to 12,000, after which the local operations went through three years of personnel cutback. Headcount was at its lowest at 9,400 in 2014. Most of the people laid off at the time had been working for Delphi Packard, where the number of employees went down from 9,812 in 2011 to 7,598 in 2014, according to the Finance Ministry website.
Delphi is currently employing more than 10,000 people in its five facilities, its officials said. Delphi did not reveal its financial results but the latest available data show it to have posted EUR631.7 million revenue in Romania in 2014.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)