Ford’s UK operation is recruiting 250 new employees as production operators for a new diesel engine production line being installed at its Dagenham Engine Plant.
This next-generation, low-CO2, 2.0-litre diesel engine family is the result of a spend of over GBP380m, including support from the UK government’s Regional Growth Fund. The engine has been designed and developed at Dagenham and at the automaker’s Dunton Technical Centre in Essex.
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The first engine will be produced towards the end of next year with production capacity reaching 350,000 units per annum. It will be installed in production vehicles from 2016.
These new recruits will join the existing staff of around 2,000 employed at Dagenham in engine production and engineering. The first wave of new employees, joining the company on a 23-month fixed-term contract, are planned to start in December this year and will be followed by further waves in the first half of 2015.
These new production positions will be part of the manufacturing team setting up and running the new engine production line, which will help maintain overall production capacity at close to 1m units a yeat. Last year the Dagenham factory produced 787,398 diesel engines with 85% exported.
This latest diesel engine programme is part of a GBP1.5bn spend on low-carbon and environmentally friendly engine and vehicle technology over five years.
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By GlobalDataFord also produces petrol engines at Bridgend in Wales. Total production from the two plants exceeded 1.5m units in 2013.
