Which automotive firms have just announced over £1bn of investment in new jobs?
If you’re hoping to secure a job in the automotive industry, there’s good news: three major UK companies have announced big investments that are going to create hundreds of jobs, including in engineering.
Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover is making the biggest expansion, with £600m going to support new R&D and manufacturing operations across three of its sites in the West Midlands
This includes a doubling of its Advanced Design and Development Centre in Whitley near Coventry where engineers will create the firm’s next generation of of high technology, ultra-low emission vehicles. The firm will also build a state-of-the art aluminium body shop to support the introduction of the all-new Jaguar XF
Meanwhile the London Taxi Company, which was rescued from bankruptcy just two years ago, is spending £250m to create 1,000 jobs at a “state-of the-art research, development and assembly facility” in Coventry to develop and build the next generation of low-emission taxis.
The company needs engineers to help design and manufacture a vehicle that can meet the new low-emission standards being introduced in London in 2018, and the new site will eventually turn out up to 36,000 vehicles a year.
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