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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.1 - Passenger Rail Transport, Interurban
980 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 February 2025
Employment effect (start)
18 June 2025
Foreseen end date
Description
Renfe has just announced a new Public Employment Offer (OPE) to recruit 300 commercial operators, complementing its recent hiring initiatives for 470 train drivers and 210 workshop personnel (980 in total). In this regard, RENFE launched a recent call in early February this year for 470 new entry-level train drivers to cover national service schedules for Renfe Viajeros and Renfe Mercancías, as well as 210 new workshop and maintenance staff being recruited across six specialisations, namely adjuster-assembler (102 jobs), electricity-electronics (66 jobs), machine tools (7 jobs), painting (7 jobs), boilermaking/sheet metal/welding (13 jobs) and supplies (15 jobs).
Additionally, and after the completion of the academic year in June 2025, 20 more positions will be offered in railway maintenance, within the framework of Dual Vocational Training. Thus, and by the end of 2025, Renfe will have hired 1,000 new employees, bringing its total new hires since 2018 to over 8,300.
Previous business expansions were recorded in the ERM database, for instance in 2024, please see RENFE 2024a-ES (+111 jobs),
RENFE 2024b-ES (+630 jobs)
and RENFE 2024c-ES (+600 jobs)
Eurofound (2025), RENFE, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 202366, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/202366.
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