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Manufacturing Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment 33.17 - Repair and maintenance of other transport equipment
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 July 2021
Employment effect (start)
6 July 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
PKP Intercity Remtrak (former Zakład Usług Taborowych ‘REMTRAK’) announced that it will create 250 new jobs at its unit in Opole. The source reports that the company plans to hire in total 400 people in the future. As of July 2021, it is not clear when the recruitment will be finished.
Together with the company’s facilities in Warsaw and Idzikowice, the unit in Opole will provide services in the field of repair, maintenance, repair of rolling stock and transport equipment to PKP Intercity, a national railway operator.
Remtrak, a subsidiary of the national railway operator PKP Intercity, was founded in 1999.
Previous business expansion was announced in April 2020 (400 jobs created).
Eurofound (2021), PKP Intercity Remtrak, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 105050, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105050.
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