Toyota has announced plans to create 1500 jobs in manufacturing as it sets it Burnaston plant up as its European centre for the creation of its hatchback vehicles. The plant currently employs 2,860 people and the recent announcement will create 500 new jobs in 2012 and possibly a further 1,000 new posts in 2013.
300 new jobs will be created as Nestle invests £110 million into an extension of it Hatton coffee manufacturing facility. The south Derbyshire site will treble production for the UK and abroad. The plant is a local success story with it creating 600+ jobs in the last 6 years.
Following a multi-billion pound investment in product creation, Jaguar Land Rover has announced it is to recruit more than 1,000 new staff at its Solihull Land Rover plant.
The new roles for production operators and skilled tradespeople will be promoted with national radio and print advertisements from today.
The company’s HR director Des Thurlby says: “This is great news for Solihull. We shall be increasing the plant workforce by more than 25%. We have a loyal and committed workforce at Solihull. These jobs are well paid with great benefits. We provide high quality training and development for all our employees and we expect to receive many thousands of applications.”
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The lack of clarity in how the manufacturing sector will cope in the current economy means that the sector will turn to the temporary recruitment market to manage the requirement for staffing during this time.
The Recruiter recently quoted: “The rate of growth in manufacturing has cooled very significantly since earlier in the year. We were seeing good payroll growth then. Over the next few months what we are likely to see is firms becoming increasingly reluctant to take on extra staff. Those that they do take on, they will be tempted to take on as temporary or contract workers.”
The construction industry in the North East of England will buck the trend as the TCP plant in Redcar will rely on hundreds of temporary workers to get it operating again.
Some 1,500 temporary staff (engineers, platers, welders, pipe - fitters, riggers and electricians) will be needed in Teeside. A number of workers have started but the site will need many more temps in the next month.
