The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Civil Engineering 42 - Civil engineering
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 May 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2008
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
On 15 May 2008, Bechtel, an American engineering, construction and project management company, announced the creation of 400 new jobs for engineers (and not 300 jobs as previously announced) at its new unit in Warsaw. Employment at the new unit commenced in February and the 400 new jobs will be created by the end of 2010. The recruitment process started in February. The new unit deals with preliminary designs for Bechtel’s international projects. Bechtel makes airports and seaports, communications networks, defense and aerospace facilities, environmental cleanput projects, fossil and buclear power plants, mines and smelters, oil and gs foels development, popelines, roads and rail systems, refineries and petrochemical facilities.
Sources
15 May 2008: Polska Agencja Prasowa Webside
5 May 2008: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Webside
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Bechtel, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 66591, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66591.
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