Jaguar Land Rover starts recruitment drive for UK plant

Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has started the process of hiring 1,400 employees for its new engine manufacturing plant in the UK.
"JLR has launched the first significant campaign to recruit 1,400 employees at its Engine Manufacturing Centre based at the i54 South Staffordshire business park near Wolverhampton," the company said in a statement today.
The luxury carmaker will hire these employees in different phases. The first phase of the recruitment will be for 600 manufacturing roles at the plant in the next four years, the statement said.
"We are entering the next phase of the programme with our small team moving onsite just last week. Today, we are starting to build our operational team for the future with the launch of our recruitment campaign," JLR Engine Manufacturing Centre's Operations Director Trevor Leeks said.

JLR is investing more than 500 million pounds on the manufacturing facility.
"Our new Engine Manufacturing Centre is a significant strand of Jaguar Land Rover's global growth ambitions and it is critical that we have a world-class manufacturing team at the heart of our new plant," Leeks added.

These roles will be required to support the manufacture of JLR's new family of high technology, low emission engines, the company said.
"The team will be responsible for the assembly of engine components, operation of the plant's world class manufacturing equipment, supporting tool changes and material line feed," it added.
The Engine Manufacturing Centre's team currently stands at around 100 people including 18 apprentices and 6 graduates.