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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.20 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
29 January 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Stadler Poland, a subsidiary of the Swiss rolling stock producer Stadler Rail Group, has announced that it will create over 200 new jobs at its production facility in Siedlce. The business expansion programme spurs from the new contracts for 71 trains for Koleje Mazowieckie (local railway operator) and 50 trams for the city Kraków. The recruitment will start in January 2018 and last several months; the company will be looking for fitters, electricians, mechanists, warehouse staff, engineers, logistics specialists as well as unskilled workers.
Stadler Rail consists of eight subsidiaries with locations in Algeria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary and Belarus. In Poland, the company employs about 700 people.
Sources
29 January 2018: Puls HR
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Stadler Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93202, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93202.
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