Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is recruiting 150 maintenance technicians in the West Midlands. The engineering roles are central to the luxury automotive’s Reimagine strategy, which will see pure electric versions of all of its brands launched by the end of the decade.
Of the 150 new jobs, JLR is recruiting 50 technicians for its Solihull plant, who will maintain automated and ‘state of the art’ manufacturing equipment essential to the production of Range Rover Electric, which is launching later this year. The remaining 100 maintenance roles will be based at JLR’s Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre (EMPC) in Wolverhampton. With the site playing a key role within JLR’s UK industrial footprint, technicians will help maintain advanced machinery that is being used to build battery packs and electric drive units (EDUs) for JLR’s next-generation electric vehicles (EVs).
Nigel Blenkinsop, JLR’s executive director of industrial operations, said: “Investing in people and the latest technology is at the cornerstone of our
Reimagine strategy. With the transformation of our factories of the future now well underway, we are now looking for talented technicians with a passion for sustainable innovation to help support our growth.”
In parallel with JLR’s latest recruitment drive, as part of its Future Skills Programme the luxury automotive is also rapidly upskilling its workforce for electrification, with more than 20,000 JLR staff and partners now trained in electrification and digital skills. This has been funded from an ongoing £3 billion per annum investment JLR is making to transform its industrial footprint, vehicle programmes, autonomous, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies, and people skills.
This investment has also enabled the radical transformation of its Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton manufacturing facilities to produce EVs and their component parts — all while enabling the parallel production of internal combustion, and hybrid engines. The first electric car JLR will launch later this year will be the Range Rover Electric, built in Solihull and currently with 57,000 customers on the waiting list. Also to be built in Solihull will be the first of three luxury electric Jaguars — a four‑door GT.