The Stellantis automobile group announced Monday that it plans to hire 1,200 employees in France during the year 2023.
“We recruit 1,050 people in 2022 in France and we plan to recruit more in 2023,” Xavier Chéreau, the group’s human resources director, said in a press release.
Stellantis, born from the merger of PSA (Peugeot, Citroën, Opel) with FCA (Fiat, Chrysler), has communicated to the unions its intention to hire 1,200 employees in France this year “for production, engineering and trade”.
“The energy transition imposes an unprecedented evolution of the production tool with for certain sites complete conversions, allowing to go from the manufacture of heat engines, whose industrial and engineering activity continues in France, to the production of electric motors or technology batteries French”, emphasizes the group.
A first battery factory inaugurated at the end of May
In 2022, 13,000 employees received electrification training, at the Trémery-Metz (Moselle) or Douvrin (North) sites.
Stellantis will inaugurate its first European battery factory on May 30 in Douvrin. 80 employees of the historic factory already work there, and “at least 400 employees” will have joined the factory by 2024.
The world’s sixth-largest automaker made the announcements as its payroll has shrunk in recent years. Before the merger at the beginning of 2021, the PSA and Fiat-Chrysler groups together had almost 300,000 employees worldwide. Two years after the merger, by the end of 2022, more than 26,000 employees were no longer in the ranks of the company, which then had a total of 272,367 employees worldwide, according to Stellantis’ annual financial report.
These outings took place in particular in Europe. The company has reduced its presence in this market, where it makes the bulk of its sales, while the bulk of the profits comes from North America.
The group, which recorded a record net profit of 16.8 billion euros in 2022, plans to redistribute 2 billion euros among its employees.
Source: BFM TV
