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Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Civil Engineering 42 - Civil engineering
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 February 2018
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Austrian construction company Porr Poland has announced that it will create between 500 and 1,000 new jobs in Poland by the end of 2018. The company is looking for blue collars with various specialisations, engineers and managers. The source reports that about 500 employees were already hired by Porr in 2017.The company hopes to be able to employ skilled workers who are being made redundant by Skanska (2,500 redundancies announced in February 2018).
Currently, Porr Poland employs about 2,500 people in Norway, Germany and Poland (2,100 workers). Porr, according to Deloitte, is the tenth largest construction company in Poland.
Sources
5 February 2018: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Porr, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93245, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93245.
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