Pirelli hires 100 people for Slatina plant

Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli Tyres Romania plans to recruit 100 people by the end of 2009 at the tyre manufacturing plant in Slatina, with the number of employees to reach 1,450. Pirelli is one of the few players in the automotive industry to still hire at this time, while the majority of companies in the industry are involved in restructuring and have frozen the hiring of new staff. The manufacturer is mainly seeking unskilled workers to sustain the 170 million-euro investments conducted so far at the Slatina-based plant. “The tyre plant employs around 1,350 staff. By the end of the year, Pirelli Tyres Romania will hire another 100 staff. Pirelli Romania will mainly hire unskilled workers until the end of the year, who will undergo an intense on-the-job training programme,” says Enrico Malerba, CEO of Pirelli Tyres Romania, which posted a 115 million-euro turnover in 2007. The three Pirelli plants on the Romanian market employ around 1,900 people, most of whom (around 1,350) work in tyre manufacturing.