Jaguar Land Rover expects ex-military engineer intake to help fill 1,300 roles
12 January 2015
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) expects to tap into a talent pool of former military engineers to help fill 1,300 new jobs, according to a spokesperson for the motoring giant.
Mon, 12 Jan 2015
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) expects to tap into a talent pool of former military engineers to help fill 1,300 new jobs, according to a spokesperson for the motoring giant.
The group announced today [12 January] it is to build its first sports utility vehicle (SUV) at its Solihull plant in the West Midlands. The increased production will help create 1,300 new roles at the site.
A JLR spokeswoman told Recruiter the firm is to use its own careers portal to recruit the roles, adding ex-military personnel are encouraged to apply for the positions.
Last year the firm committed to enhancing employment opportunities for former service personnel following the Invictus Games – an international sporting event for wounded, injured and sick soldiers.
The spokeswoman said: “The vast majority of the roles we’re advertising for currently are production line operators and maintenance technicians working within production facilities.
“In addition to those 1,300 roles, some of which are suitable for military personnel, we also have broader roles at Solihull and at our engineering manufacturing centre.”
According to the spokeswoman, maintenance and logistics engineering roles, as well as team leader positions, lend themselves well to ex-military personnel.
“At Solihull we have quite a lot of ex-military personnel who work within our production environment as maintenance engineers, who are responsible for looking after all of our manufacturing equipment,” she added.
“We also have a material planning and logistics area that lend themselves well to their skills.”
Meanwhile, a report from not-for-profit organisation Engineering UK, published today [12 January], reveals that at all levels of education the UK does not have either the current capacity or the rate of growth needed to meet anticipated demand for skilled engineers by 2022.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) expects to tap into a talent pool of former military engineers to help fill 1,300 new jobs, according to a spokesperson for the motoring giant.
The group announced today [12 January] it is to build its first sports utility vehicle (SUV) at its Solihull plant in the West Midlands. The increased production will help create 1,300 new roles at the site.
A JLR spokeswoman told Recruiter the firm is to use its own careers portal to recruit the roles, adding ex-military personnel are encouraged to apply for the positions.
Last year the firm committed to enhancing employment opportunities for former service personnel following the Invictus Games – an international sporting event for wounded, injured and sick soldiers.
The spokeswoman said: “The vast majority of the roles we’re advertising for currently are production line operators and maintenance technicians working within production facilities.
“In addition to those 1,300 roles, some of which are suitable for military personnel, we also have broader roles at Solihull and at our engineering manufacturing centre.”
According to the spokeswoman, maintenance and logistics engineering roles, as well as team leader positions, lend themselves well to ex-military personnel.
“At Solihull we have quite a lot of ex-military personnel who work within our production environment as maintenance engineers, who are responsible for looking after all of our manufacturing equipment,” she added.
“We also have a material planning and logistics area that lend themselves well to their skills.”
Meanwhile, a report from not-for-profit organisation Engineering UK, published today [12 January], reveals that at all levels of education the UK does not have either the current capacity or the rate of growth needed to meet anticipated demand for skilled engineers by 2022.
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