After doubling their workforce since 2010, Porsche AG officials are now getting ready to hire more than 1,400 new employees in the Stuttgart region.
The additional jobs will help Porsche develop and produce the brand’s first all-electric sports car, the Mission E, which was green lighted at the end of 2015 and will be produced in Zuffenhaused at the end of the decade. The facility will get a €700 million ($768 million) injection, which will lead to the creation of a new assembly plant and paint shop, in less than two years.
Porsche is also looking to recruit experts specialized in vehicle connectivity, digitalization, smart mobility and e-mobility, along with hiring more than 100 IT specialists and offering 50 jobs to creative individuals who will have to integrate the latest technologies into mobility solutions in the premium vehicle segment.
Moreover, the company will raise the apprentice numbers from the current 150 to 220 and since “increasing the share of women in the workforce” is seen as a “strategic goal”, two executive management positions will soon be filled by women.
“We are in direct competition with other automakers and suppliers and IT firms in our global search for talented experts. Money alone is not enough to attract these creative minds. You also need to offer exciting challenges, an inspiring environment, the greatest possible freedom to create and, now more than ever, attractive programmes for the work-life balance“, said Andreas Haffner, Member of the Porsche AG Executive Board, responsible for Human Resources.
Besides hiring new people, the automaker will also improve the skills of the current workfoce, as the brand’s vision of the future sees “state-of-the-art production facilities in which robots assist human workers with ergonomically difficult tasks”.
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