Job-Seekers Flock to JLR
Employment at the auto maker’s plant in Halewood will total nearly 4,500, triple the number of workers there three years ago.
In a sign of the times, more than 35,000 people apply for 1,000 new jobs at Jaguar Land Rover's Halewood, U.K., manufacturing facility near Liverpool.
JLR says 6,000-plus applications were received within 24 hours of the jobs being announced in March, and after one week the figure rose to 20,000 online registrations.
The application process now is closed.
The new hires will help meet global demand for the Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Freelander 2 and take the workforce at Halewood to almost 4,500, triple the number employed there three years ago.
The plant is moving to 3-shift, 24-hour production.
JLR HR Director Des Thurlby says in a statement that more than 100 workers already have been hired.
The new jobs at Halewood include production operators, supervisors and engineers.
All new employees joining the assembly line receive training toward an intermediate (Level 2) apprenticeship.
Jaguar’s previous large-scale recruitment campaign in December 2010 attracted more than 14,000 applications for 1,500 new jobs, as the factory ramped-up for the July 2011 launch of the Evoque.
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