A recruitment specialist has been hired to help find some of the hundreds of new workers needed for London Taxi Co’s new £250 million factory, which is being built at Ansty Park, near Coventry.

Consilium Recruit, which has bases in Stratford-upon-Avon and Stourport, has a division specifically set up to recruit highly skilled engineers, managers and advanced manufacturing technicians (www.cgl.eu.com).

The Chinese-owned taxi company, which manufactures the iconic London black cab, will be producing an electric version of the vehicle at the new 80,000sq m plant. The new vehicle is set to be on the road in 2018, although the traditional TX4 diesel cabs will still be manufactured at the firm’s base in Holyhead Road, Coventry.

The Ansty Park facility is set to create around 1,000 jobs and will eventually have the capacity to produce 36,000 vehicles a year, many of which will find their way into new markets around the world.

Consilium director Steve Doyle said: “We are delighted to be involved in such an important project for the region, and for automotive manufacture in Britain. The work will involve recruiting for some challenging positions, but we have a track record of recruiting a wide spread of engineering talent with the advanced skill-sets required for the engineering and manufacturing technologies of tomorrow.”

Consilium, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, was formed by a group of engineering and manufacturing professionals. The company has placed industry talent into a variety of leading UK and European businesses, with clients such as Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren and Bosch.