Chrysler Group LLC needs 1,000 additional engineers and high-tech employees to work on its future product lineup. The automaker is actively recruiting on 35 college campuses and encouraging resumes in a bid to add the professionals by April of next year.
The Auburn Hills-based automaker decimated its workforce as part of restructuring leading up to bankruptcy in 2009. The automaker emerged in June 2009, formed a partnership with Fiat SpA and began work on overhauling its needy product lineup.
Chrysler had 82,280 employees at the end of 2006, including 64,750 in the United States. By June 2009, that figure had fallen to 47,800, with 32,250 in the United States.
The automaker has hired close to 5,000 new employees, both hourly and salaried, since June 2009. Included in that figure are at least 500 engineers, many of them contract employees.
Of the 1,000 new hires going forward, about 60 percent will be on the payroll and 40 percent will on contract, said spokesman Mike Palese.
Those interested can go to Chrysler's website: www.chryslercareers.com.
