RTR not hurt by halted production at Dacia plant

Representatives of Renault Technologie Roumanie (RTR), Renault’s engineering centre, which is expected to reach 3,000 employees by the end of next year, say they are not affected by production being halted at the Automobile Dacia plant, and plan to hire several hundred more staff next year. “Production being halted does not affect us directly, since we are working on the upstream stage, before the vehicle designs to reach the industrialisation stage,” Dana Oprisan, human resource manager of RTR told ZF. Currently, RTR employs around 2,300 people in Bucharest, Pitesti, and Titu, of which 680 were hired this year, which accounts for 97% of the recruitment planned for 2008. RTR’s strategy to reach 3,000 employees, most of whom are engineers, is one of the most ambitious recruitment drives on the local market, considering that employers have been bemoaning the shortage of technical graduates for several years now.