Demand soars at JCB
17 March 2021
The positive news of recovery continues as JCB today launches a recruitment drive for hundreds more shop floor employees. The manufacturer has also announced plans to give hundreds more agency employees permanent contracts as demand for construction equipment soars.
The company revealed in January that it was hiring more than 400 UK shop floor agency employees and giving permanent JCB contracts from 1 April to more than 300 existing agency employees.
Today JCB announced it is recruiting a further 450 agency shop floor employees at its factories in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham. Later this year it will give an additional 400 agency shop floor employees with more than one year’s service permanent JCB contracts. These will include assemblers, welders, fabricators and CNC machinists.
Chief Operating Officer Mark Turner said: “The rebound following the Covid-19 pandemic continues to gather pace and even in the space of a month since we started recruiting, we now need a further 450 shop floor employees.
“The creation of a total of 850 jobs this year is very good news for our business and for the areas where we operate.”
The Covid-19 pandemic halted production at JCB factories around the world from last March, when “orders disappeared overnight”. It took more than six months for the business to recover to previous production levels. The manufacturer forecasts a continued solid recovery, with strong demand from mainland Europe and North America.
