Wednesday 13th March 2013

Porsche is recruiting!

You'll need 'petrol in your blood' though...

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Fancy building Porsches for a living? Of course you do - what red-blooded petrolhead wouldn't want to be at the heart of one of the most celebrated sports car brands in the world, building the very cars generations of car nuts have lusted after?

Should you play with wires with petrol in your blood?

Good news, then. Porsche is recruiting! "We want employees with petrol in their blood!" boasts Dr Oliver Blume, man in charge of the recruitment drive and endowed with the snappy job title 'Member of the Executive Board Production and Logistics of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG'. No wonder his attempt at injecting a bit of humour and personality into the recruitment process manages to come across as sounding a bit sinister.

Stretching the analogy a little, what he doesn't mention is that you'd best also have a bit of diesel in there too, the location of the new jobs being in Leipzig, not Weissach. That's the first hint that dreams of spending your working days fettling 911s, Caymans and Boxsters might not be the reality. In fact, the closest you'll be getting to 911s is probably the ones you walk past in the executives' car parking area, because the expansion at Leipzig (home to Cayenne and Panamera too) is being driven by the looming arrival of the Macan crossover.

It is, of course, good news that Porsche is in rude enough health to need more than 1,000 new workers. And it's an attractive enough place to work that they've had over 16,000 applicants for the 1,000 production and 400 engineering roles the expansion to include the Macan. Describing the Macan as "an emotional product" Siegfried Bulow (Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche Leipzig GmbH - in case you were wondering) outlined the 500m euro investment going into the plant, adding that the construction project is the biggest in Porsche's history. All of which goes to underline there's more money making crossovers than there is GT3s. With or without PDK, we're glad they still do though.

[bencollins]

Macan : emotional product = it'll make people weep.

[Photek]

Link to the jobs...?

[Salgar]

Photek said:

Link to the jobs...?

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[DaveH23]

http://www.porsche.com/uk/aboutporsche/jobs/

[Ozzie Osmond]

Buy a real Porsche sportscar while you can - at this rate it won't be long until there's nothing in the range except heavy execo-barges and hulking 4x4s which already account for the majority of sales.

For anyone who's genuinely interested in sportscars the new Boxster and Cayman are an astounding opportunity to buy a beautifully balanced chassis under a properly engineered package.

[alfabadass]

Porsche need the Boxster, Cayman, 911 et al in order to give the rest of the range it's sporting pedigree.

Also...you may not like their other stuff but generally it's top notch in its sector.

[robinessex]

Ok, petrol in your veins eh ? Ok, production guy, you can put the wheels on. Engineering guy, you can design the door handles, rear view mirror, and cup holder.

[Escort Si-130]

Id be inrested in working there if it was in the UK

[Matt UK]

Ozzie Osmond said:

Buy a real Porsche sportscar while you can - at this rate it won't be long until there's nothing in the range except heavy execo-barges and hulking 4x4s which already account for the majority of sales.

For anyone who's genuinely interested in sportscars the new Boxster and Cayman are an astounding opportunity to buy a beautifully balanced chassis under a properly engineered package.

Yessss.....

The fact that the new Boxster and Cayman are so good, may well be due to the funding provided by the 'heavy execo-barges and hulking 4x4s which already account for the majority of sales'

Tough to have one, without the other.

[Fittster]

Does VAG dedicate each of its factories to one of its brands or could a plant produces skodas one year a porches the next?

[Amanitin]

People with petrol in their blood enough to form a phase will lose consciousness within seconds then get their pulmonary and coronary capillaries clogged up and die of lung and/or heart failure on short order.
Porsche is not your friend.

[turbo-ww]

Fittster said:

Does VAG dedicate each of its factories to one of its brands or could a plant produces skodas one year a porches the next?

Why would they want to build hallways?

[fatboy b]

Maybe Porsche could recruit a few designers too

[Photek]

DaveH23 said:

http://www.porsche.com/uk/aboutporsche/jobs/

Thanks Dave, just had a quick look and there's more details available at :

http://www.porsche-leipzig.com/en/jobs/default.asp...

[mybrainhurts]

A German, breaking out in humour.....? Vot..?

[garypotter]

Petrol in your veins??
I once let my cat drink petrol and it ran round and round the garden then after 1/2 hour the cat cat stopped!

Why??



It ran out of petrol.....

boom boom tish!

[MonkeySpanker]

The company Dr is Josef Mengele perhaps?

[mrclav]

bencollins said:

Macan : emotional product = it'll make people weep.

The ones weeping are those who have paid a deposit for one who have now been told they'll need to wait up to 2 years before taking delivery. Say what you like but the Macan is a great every day car which ticks a lot of boxes for a lot of people.

[Deerfoot]

mrclav said:

Say what you like but the Macan is a great every day car which ticks a lot of boxes for a lot of people.

As long as one of those boxes is a huge wait for delivery I guess.

[Motorrad]

Deerfoot said:

As long as one of those boxes is a huge wait for delivery I guess.

Or a premium priced soulless badge engineered white goods euro box.