Siemens Mobility has taken on 24 apprentices and graduates at its Goole Rail Village, where it’s assembling new Piccadilly line trains, and which could deliver the UK’s next generation of main line trains.
The recruitment includes 22 apprentices – its highest number in the UK for a single site in a year – and comes as the pioneering development in East Yorkshire gears up to becoming fully operational.
The trainees are aged between 16 and 26 and all started on the same day, across a variety of roles in the Manufacturing, Logistics and Warehousing, Quality, Commissioning, Components, Materials Control, Operations and Commercial teams at Goole. More than half of the new starters are from the Goole area, with most of the others from the wider Yorkshire region.
Taking on so many young people in a single phase demonstrates Siemens Mobility’s commitment to developing a new generation of talent while establishing Goole as a centre of excellence for the rail industry in the UK, according to Mark Speed, General Manager of Siemens Mobility at Goole. He said: “We’re excited to welcome all these new recruits to our growing team in Goole. Bringing on board so many talented young people demonstrates our commitment to creating new opportunities to join the UK rail industry and help to shape its future.
“These new team members represent a major investment in creating a powerful pipeline of talent and a lasting legacy of skills for our business and the wider industry. The numbers taken on also reflect the scale of our operations in Goole and the range of functions within the Rail Village.
“We’re looking forward to seeing our new colleagues grow and develop in their roles and contribute to the success of our operations in Goole as we transform rail travel and transport.”
Siemens Mobility is investing £200m to develop a train manufacturing facility and associated operations in Goole, creating up to 700 jobs directly as well as around 1,700 opportunities in the wider supply chain.
The first trains built at the new factory will be new tube trains for Transport for London. 80% of new trains for the Piccadilly line on the London Underground will be assembled at Goole.
Siemens Mobility plans to build all future main line trains for the UK at Goole, including new battery bi-mode trains that it has calculated could save Britain’s railways £3.5bn and 12 million tonnes of CO2 over 35 years.
