Porsche Expands Workforce ready for Macan

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Just a few months before the first customer vehicle of the new Porsche Macan will roll off the assembly line, German auto manufacturer Porsche has expressed their desire to hire 1,000 skilled employees with professional qualifications in body construction, painting, assembly and quality assurance at the Porsche plant in Leipzig.


Speaking to the media in the new Leipzig body shop, Oliver Blume, Member of the Executive Board Production and Logistics of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG said, "We have a new addition to our model family - now we're looking for qualified and highly motivated people in production for the realisation of our ambitious goals. We want employees with petrol in their blood."
Alongside the 1,000 production workers, the location in Saxony is hiring a total of 400 engineers for the planning of the new sections, of which 220 are already on board.
Porsche AG is investing around 500 million euro (Rs 3500 crore approx..) in the conversion of the location into a fully-fledged plant with its own paint shop and body assembly hall. It's the biggest construction project in the history of Porsche AG.
Siegfried Bülow, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche Leipzig GmbH said, "New plant, new vehicle - and a new team, to boot. Alongside the completion of the building, our greatest task will be integrating our new colleagues into the existing plant team and qualifying them for their work at Porsche."
The staff build-out will continue up through 2014 - then the new Macan will hit the road. Porsche employs a staff of 1,150 in Leipzig at present - with the production of the Macan, the workforce will be more than doubled.
The Macan is based on the Audi Q5 and will be an important model for the Indian market. Considering that the Audi Q5 is already being assembled at Audi's Aurangabad facility, there is a faint possibility that the Porsche Macan could also be assembled in India. Prices of the Porsche Macan is expected to be around Rs 45 to 50 lakh in India.

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