American automotive components producer Delphi, which is hiring over 10,000 people in the two plants it owns in Timis and Arad, has already recruited 34 employees of the first 300 to be hired at Delphi's third facility, based in Iasi, which will produce diesel engine components.
"We have started recruiting for the Iasi-based plant as early as May this year, and so far, we have 34 employees on our team, who are being trained abroad, in Delphi facilities," said John Hutson, manager of the Iasi-based plant.
John Hutson was previously general manager of the plant held by the American group in Ineu, Arad county.
The personnel training depends, according to Delphi representatives, on the employee's job description, and in the case of a university graduate, the initial training can take around two weeks. The initial course is followed by a 2 to 4-month training in one of the group's plants, and, after the plant is completed and production starts at the Iasi-based plant, there will be further on-the-job training.
Delphi has already recruited 9 future Romanian managers, around which the extended team of Romanian managers will form, which will eventually take over the management of the plant in 3 years' time.
"To start with, the management team will be a mixture of local and expat managers, but our target is for all managers to be local within a three-year period. We have already hired 9 Romanians on management positions," said Hutson.
In order to make sure we have an educated recruitment pool, the company will be involved in collaboration programmes with local education centres, such as the partnership closed with Gheorghe Asachi in Iasi.
"One of the reasons for which we have chosen Iasi as a location for the Delphi plant was, aside from the proximity to clients in the region, the closeness of the second largest University centre in R
