Dacia on hiring spree

Domestic carmaker Automobile Dacia will launch an extensive recruitment drive over the next three years, when it plans to hire more than 1,000 workers and over 500 engineers and specialists. This is one of the biggest recruitment drives in the automotive industry, considering the Faculty of Transports of Bucharest turns out about 500 graduates a year. “We want to boost the local integration level of the production from 60% at the moment to 80%. In order for us to do this, we need to develop the activity of the factory in Pitesti as much as possible,” stated Francois Fourmont, Dacia”s chief executive. Dacia is currently employing 12,500 people. The decision of the local manufacturer comes a short while after another important manufacturer in the Romanian automotive industry, Continental, decided to establish a research and development centre in Sibiu, to complement its factories in Timisoara. “The engineers in Romania are very well trained,” Fourmont explains. He says the decision to expand in Romania comes after the better than expected performance of the Logan model. ZF