Renault Trucks initiates recruitment drive to increase e-truck output at Blainville-sur-Orne plant
By Bradley Osborne - 3rd January 2022
France – Renault Trucks SAS, a truck manufacturer and subsidiary of the Volvo Group based in Saint-Priest, France, has announced that it will be hiring an additional 100 operators in 2022 at its manufacturing facility in Blainville-sur-Orne, France, where production of electric vehicles was recently scaled up.
The Blainville-sur-Orne plant has been mass-producing medium-duty electric trucks since 2020. In 2021, production capacity was expanded to meet a target of a couple of thousand units per year. As such, the manufacturer is now looking to expand its workforce on a permanent basis in order to ramp up production of both medium-duty diesel and electric trucks at the site. These operators will join 1,546 workers already employed at the plant. The decision to scale up production was reportedly made in response to the growing demand for electric vehicles in Europe and elsewhere.
