Renault is ready to receive CVs. The car manufacturer announced on Tuesday the recruitment of 150 people at its Flins site, in Yvelines, which is currently undergoing reconversion.
The Flins “Refactory” is the factory symbol of the group’s ambitions in the circular economy. Of the 1,938 employees, “more than 90%” are now assigned to vehicle reconditioning, although the site has been dedicated to car assembly since 1952.
Permanent contracts to prepare for “the arrival of new activities”
During an extraordinary social and economic committee on Tuesday, Renault specified that this recruitment plan will be carried out “over the next three years” in the form of “indefinite-term contracts”. These permanent contracts “concern operators, field managers and engineers alike. They aim to strengthen skills to prepare for the future and the arrival of new activities. They attest to the dynamic transformation of the Yvelines site” and “the development of circular economy activities”, according to the group.
These recruitments “will be offered as a priority to temporary workers present on the site”, and are part of the “Re-Nouveau France 2025” agreement which was signed by the representative trade union organizations CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO in December 2021, “concerning the anchoring of the group’s industrial activities in France”, indicated Renault.
The FO union is satisfied
The group’s FO union, for its part, welcomed as “good news” the fact that “Renault Flins will be hiring again”, and highlighted the fact that “no less than 150 people and families will be able to escape precariousness” .
The “new industrial model” of the Flins site consists in particular of “extending the lifespan of vehicles”, “producing, storing and managing green energy”, and “extending the lifespan of certain parts and certain materials”. In 2021, the manufacturer indicated its ambition to employ 3,000 employees in Flins and to achieve “more turnover there than by assembling cars there” by 2030, by generating “more than billion euros in turnover in the circular economy.