Starting next week there will be more opportunities to hire staff for the Seat-Volskwagen gigafactory in Sagunt. It has been one of the aspects highlighted today by the CEO of PowerCo Spain, Thomas Dahlem, who has participated in the Battery Convention that Eurobat has organized in Valencia on the third day of the eMobility Expo World Congress.
Currently, the company has 12 positions open on its website, mainly linked to operations and finance, as well as another linked to facilities. The company, which has planned to hire up to 3,000 employees, could increase this number, since according to Dhalem, between the three planned plants (Salzgitter, Sagunt and Saint Thomas) they will generate more than 20,000 employees before the year 2030.
Along with the recruitment of talent already underway, Dahlem has given details of what the Sagunt factory will be like. And in the simulation, the firm has drawn attached to the plant the training center that they will build together with the Generalitat Valenciana, the Campus Battery. The center will be located on the land of the Parc Sagunt II industrial park, instead of the surface of Parc Sagunt I as originally announced, according to sources from the Generalitat.
Regarding its deadlines, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana Ximo Puig, who has officially opened this congress, said this morning that “our goal is to be there by 2024 or 25”. The president has advanced that next week he will meet at the PowerCo offices in Valencia to discuss various issues of the project.
Faced with a simulated image of what the future gigafactory that is already being built in Sagunt will be like, the executive explained that there will be a whole “beach of tracks” with its own railway terminal, essential for raw materials, which “will arrive by train, That is why we have focused our attention on creating this intermodality”, he pointed out.
The PowerCo gigafactory will be connected by rail to the Port of Sagunt with the tracks of the Mediterranean corridor and these are advancing at the expected rate, according to Adif sources, so that they can provide service by the end of 2024.
