Opel establishes training centre in Szentgotthárd
American General Motors and its subsidiary Opel will increase its headcount by 500 and establish a new training centre as well as a service centre in Hungary, announced the company on Thursday.
The company's plan to expand its stuff and build a new training and service centre in Szentgotthárd, Hungary, was announced at a press conference on Thursday by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Joachim Koschnicke, the Opel Group’s Vice President of European Government Relations.
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| Péter Szijjártó Péter, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (right), Colleen Bell, US Ambassador to Hungary (centre), and Joachim Koschnicke, GM vice president of European goverment relations (left) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
Koschnicke said EUR 700,000 will be spent on the construction of the new facility, while an additional EUR 1 million will be invested in tools and equipment.
He added that the new training centre, providing a sufficient supply of future employees as well as a means of effective dual training in the West-Hungarian region will be finished this year.
The new centre will train automation technicians, metalworkers and electricians, 100 trainees at the same time.
GM has plans to increase its engine production by 50 percent from last year and intends to produce 580,000 engines annually, necessitating an additional 500 employees at its new plant Hungarian.
Currently, the Szentgotthárd plant employs 1,400 people.
