Now with 4,500 employees, JLR Halewood factory has tripled its workforce in three years.
Jaguar Land Rover at its Halewood plant is now running around the clock production, the first time the factory has run flat out in its 50-year history. The new night shift, which began at 21.30 last evening required the hiring of 1,000 production workers.
The job creation was the result of the success of the Range Rover Evoque, which launched one year ago. Evoque is selling well at 88,000 SUVs shipped so far to 170 markets. England’s largest automotive employer, now owned by Indian company Tata, also builds the Freelander 2 at the plant.
“I am delighted to welcome our new colleagues as they come on-board to help us meet customer demand for the Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Freelander,” said Halewood Operations Director, Richard Else.
With 4,500 employees, JLR Halewood has tripled its workforce in three years, and the size of the workforce is now the highest it has been for 20 years.
“We received more than 30,000 applications for these 1,000 new roles and we are very fortunate that we were able to select such high caliber people for our new jobs,” said Des Thurlby, HR Director at JLR.
JLR has also announced a recruitment drive for 1,100 new jobs at its Castle Bromwich plant to support the assembly of the upcoming XF Sportbrake (station wagon) later this year and an all-new Jaguar F-Type.
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