Nissan reveals 200 new jobs in Sunderland
Friday 22 July 2011 2:24 PM
Car giant Nissan today announced up to 200 new jobs at its North East plant.
The Japanese motor manufacturer has launched a major recruitment campaign for engineers and maintenance technicians.
The positions across the plant will support the current record levels of production, the introduction of electric vehicle technology to the UK at the new battery plant and the development of the Nissan Leaf and the next generation Qashqai.
Kevin Fitzpatrick, Nissan vice-president for manufacturing in the UK, said: “Nissan is actively recruiting for new engineers and maintenance technicians to join our highly skilled workforce at our Sunderland plant.
“These new recruits will play a key role not only in maintaining our record production levels, but in making sure that our battery plant and future models are introduced successfully.”
The scale of Nissan’s recruitment campaign is such that a website has been launched for prospective employees to find out more about its operation.
This will provide details of all the new jobs, information about the plant and a section on the benefits of living and working in the North East.
The website will feature all the new job opportunities as they become available and is now live at www.careers atnissan.co.uk
Nissan, one of the founding companies in the UK’s Talent Retention Solution (TRS), will be looking to match a number of its job opportunities with skilled engineers facing redundancy from the defence sector.
The TRS was launched last week by UK Minister for Business Mark Prisk and will match employees to UK companies in growing sectors of advanced manufacturing and engineering.
It was last month when Nissan announced it would build its next model at the Wearside plant.
The company said it would invest millions of pounds upgrading its hugely successful Washington factory, which already makes around one in three cars produced in Britain. Nissan’s decision to design and build the model which will replace the Qashqai in Britain will see £192m invested in its UK operation, although most of this will be in its design offices in London and technical site in Bedfordshire, which has 500 staff.
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