Type
Business expansion
Country
France
Region
Ouest; Poitou-Charentes; Charente
Location of affected unit(s)
Ruelle-sur-Touvre
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture For Transport Equipment
Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment
30.11 - Building of ships and floating structures

100 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
7 March 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019

Description

The ship building group Naval Group has announced the recruitment of 100 people on permanent employment contract for its site of Ruelle-sur-Touvre (Charente). The positions to be filled are mainly for technicians and engineers specialising in the design and manufacture of strategic equipment, vital for submarines and defence vessels, with initial or confirmed experience, but also in the fields of mechanics, planning or engineering, hydraulics, industrial performance, continuous improvement and IT.

Naval group employs 13,429 people on 10 sites in France. Jobs creation announcements took place in January 2019 (200 job creations in Brest),  in March 2018 (200 job creations), in  October 2017 (100 job creations), in February 2017 (100 job creations), in 2012 (700 job creations) and in 2011 (100 job creations) but also a restructuring in 2011 (150 job losses).


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2019), Naval Group, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 97311, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97311.