How Ford Romania's HR manager sees the development of Ford Craiova

Angella Alexander, one of the first execs of Ford Motor
Company involved in the project of the Craiova plant, left the
London offices for the one of Craiova. The project had unofficially
started two years before that. “I’ve been involved in the Ford
Romania project for almost four years, since 2006. We cannot say
this is much as it’s an extensive project (…),” said Alexander.
Overall, Ford is set to invest over 100m euros in training
programmes over the following years, after personnel training
expenses last year hit 12m euros. Of the total sum, 57m euros are
state aid. Ford’s plans for the Craiova plant include doubling the
number of employees, from 3,600 at present, to more than 7,000
people, once the plant reaches a capacity of 300,000 cars and
300,000 engines per year, after 2012. Alexander said that the
number of employees would not change this year. “We expect to
recruit further starting the first half of next year (…)”, she
said.