The world is just a few days into 2012, but that hasn’t stopped Porsche from already thinking ahead. In order to keep up with their rapidly increasing sales and ever evolving cars, the German institution is planning on hiring a wealth of new employees. The plan is to increase the company’s core staff by nearly 10 percent by adding 300 engineers. This is in an attempt to not only pump out some of the most precise apex-killing machines the world will ever see, but also to reach an annual sales goal of 200,000 units by 2018.
“We are growing at a tremendous pace,” said Wolfgang Hatz, Porsche’s R&D chief in an interview with Automotive News Europe. At the end of 2011, Porsche did better than expected sales wise. A number of 115,000 units is much higher than 2010 and because of that, the company had to hire more throughout the year. “We hired more than 300 engineers last year over and above replacing people who left as part of normal staff turnover,” said Hatz. 2012 will be a big year for the company with the newly rebuilt 911, its convertible version, the next Cayman and Panamera GTS launching. In 2013, the 918 Spyder supercar and Cajun SUV will also be released so it only makes sense for the pre-planned hiring.
Source: AutomotiveNews.com
