A hot building engineering. New Swedish-developed heavy-duty vehicles. And a domestic automobile manufacturer, which takes up the fight with the world’s top. The market for Swedish engineers is far more than krisförhandlingar at Ericsson. New Technology has talked with ten large ingenjörsarbetsgivare.
On Ericsson it is grim. 3,000 jobs are at risk and the factories in Borås and Kumla can be shut. Closely associated with this, there are engineering jobs in research and development. A total of 1 050 engineering jobs threatened.
Yet the image of american technology is significantly lighter than that.
Volvo Cars, for example, is currently conducting one of the largest rekryteringskampanjerna in the company’s 89-year history. Bilbyggaren has 6 000 employees engineers and will hire 400 next year.
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Above all, it is large-scale investments in new technologies in areas such as self-driven cars and electrification, which creates the need. The same applies to the heavy vehicles of Volvo AB
We are looking in the day after 20 people who can be autonomous and self-driven vehicles. The skills we are looking for is, above all, in the software and data, ” says Joakim Kenndal, Volvo AB’s press office.
the Volvo group and Scania, which also launched a new truck, is a big and important part of Swedish industry and the three companies to the good times is evident in the statistics. A new survey from the association of Swedish engineering industries show that the Swedish teknikkoncerner increased the number of employees in Sweden, which is a reversal of the trend. In Sweden the number increased by a little over 2 000 people in 2015 to nearly 109 000, equivalent to 15.6% of the surveyed groups all employees.
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– this depends on the success in the automotive industry, ” says Anders Rune, chief economist at Teknikföretagen.
another industrial giant of its own is automation and kraftkoncernen ABB with 9 000 employees, of which 6 000 are engineers.
” We have need of a hundred engineers during the year, but some will be solved with internal recruitments. The total number will be at about the same level as now. We replace those who retire or quit at ABB, says Mary Brithon Brinck, director of human resources for ABB Sweden.
But it is not as merrily to all companies. There is no real momentum on the global economy and demand is somewhat weak. As for the steel, for example. When the New Technology is asking the FEDERATION to answer questions about how their recruitment of engineers looks to answer in an e-mail that they do not wish to participate. The company has announced the cutbacks after the merger with Finnish Rautaruukki, SSAB more competitive on a stålmarknad that are struggling with overcapacity and falling prices.
In the Swedish construction industry, on the other hand, is booming.
“I see a very bright future,” says Åsa Bergman, president of the consulting engineering firm Sweco.
Sweco intends to hire around 750 of engineers in Sweden in the year, a development that has been constant the last few years. Åsa Bergman stated that the addition to engineers with competences linked to the real estate and construction in particular are looking for new it engineers.
– It is new, it is affecting the future of the connected city, and we need people who have it skills, ” says Åsa Bergman.
the Same tone is heard from Skanska.
– We are hiring about 100 people a month and expect to continue to do so during the year and next year. Half of our civil service is the engineers, currently about 2 500, ” says Anna Wenner, hr director at Skanska Sweden.
That means in the first place ersättningsrekryteringar, but byggjätten grow something. Many companies are looking to access the most seasoned or talented byggnadsingenjörerna and Skanska are working to attract new employees, in the first instance on higher education institutions.
Can former Ericsson engineers to be current for you?
” Yes, they would be able to be. We expect of course that it will not be easy to find the classic skills and try to broaden our recruitment base, ” says Anna Wenner.
Peter Larsson, who is the social director at the Swedish association of graduate Engineers indicate that Ericsson employees have previously been successful in finding new jobs. Telekomjätten has been