“Ford Romania will start the recruitment of 500 workers. We will mainly recruit basic operators for production lines, but we are also interested in employing maintenance specialists,” said Angella Alexander, HR manager.
The plans of the US company seem to finally speed up after last autumn the company said recruitment would start as late as in 2013-2014, and the target at the time was 5,000 employees, from the initial 7,000.
Ford was fined EUR14.25 million by privatizations authority AVAS for failing to manufacture the over 250,000 vehicles it had committed to originally and the deadline for finalizing the EUR675 million investment in the plant was put off by one year until December 31 2012.
Jan Gijsen, president of Ford Romania, said the Craiova plant would produce 60,000 units of its new multipurpose vehicle B-Max, and plans to reach an average rate of 162,000 units per year in five years’ time, almost half the volume promised when the company was privatized.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)