The company will be looking for suitable candidates for its retail business, to staff the 14 new gas stations it plans to open in Romania in 2014, as well as engineers.
“We want to hire some 700 people for the group this year, more than 500 of whom in Romania. We will focus especially on retail where we need 170 people to open 14 new gas stations and 200 people for industrial services, mainly engineers,” said Florin Luca, HR manager of KazMunayGas International, which has more than 7,600 employees in 12 countries.
He became HR manager of the group three months ago when he replaced Aneliese Anghel, who had spent more than three years with the company. He had previously served as HR manager of BRD for four years and then deputy HR director of the retail banking unit of the parent bank in France.
After hiring the 500 people, KMG International will have more employees in Romania than two years ago (the number of employees in the country has gone down by more than 2,000 in the last six years, according to the information provided by the company).
The group’s strategy in recent years has been to optimize operations by upgrading production facilities and automating them so as to boost refinancing capacity and cut costs. Some group-wide processes were optimized, as well, and some employees were outsourced, relocated or laid off, Florin Luca explains.
KMG International then continued optimization but also increased the share of retail sales units in the business so it also started organic growth, hence the hiring plans for the coming years, he added.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)