National Employer Service
Profile: Jaguar Land Rover
Employer directory
- Full name of company: Jaguar Cars Ltd & Land Rover
- Sector: Automotive
- Training provided: Apprenticeships, Train to Gain
- Number of employees: 5000-10000
Jaguar Land Rover is a business built around two British car brands: Jaguar Cars Limited and Land Rover. The Jaguar Land Rover business employs some 15,000 people, predominantly in the UK, including around 3,500 engineers at two product development centres in Whitley, Coventry and Gaydon, Warwickshire. 78 % of Land Rovers are exported to over 160 countries and 70 percent of Jaguars exported to over 60 countries, with sales to customers conducted principally through franchised dealers and importers.
The dealer network comprises of both franchises and independent dealerships who recruit apprentices and work with the Academy at JLR in order to help them achieve. The NES contract with JLR is via the technical academy and relates to both young apprentices and the dealer network. Apprenticeships are mainly in engineering with some in customer service. JLR currently has over 300 young apprentices enrol per year, along with up to 200 adult apprentices.
The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) group is now owned by the Tata group of India.
Company News
-
Jaguar Land Rover looks to employees’ basic skills
Jaguar Land Rover has improved manufacturing efficiency at its Halewood plant with a pilot training programme that concentrated on basic skills and problem solving. Trainers at the car plant, in Liverpool, developed the course when they identified a lack of basic numeracy and literacy as the root cause of production inefficiencies.
02 November 2009
-
Jaguar announces apprentice recruitment
Jaguar Land Rover has announced it is to start recruiting engineering apprentices. The apprenticeships will last up to four years, with the initial 18 months to two years at college.
03 April 2009
- Telephone: 024 7682 5815
- Fax: 024 7682 3284
- Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Site by Erskine Design