AVL recruits 100 engineers

The company is looking for additional skills to handle new product development

Powertrain systems developer AVL is looking to recruit 100 engineers as part of an expansion drive to meet surging demand.

The company, which has technical centres in Basildon, Essex, and Kidderminster, Worcestershire, said it needed additional skills to handle new product development contracts in areas such as energy storage and electric motors for hybrid and electric vehicles, and software development for gearbox control. 

AVL was founded in 1948 by Austrian professor Dr Hans List, initially developing diesel truck engines. It now claims to be the world’s largest privately owned engineering company with more than 20 technical centres worldwide. Dr Matthias Wellers, managing director of AVL Powertrain UK, said: “We’re seeing more and more companies becoming interested in what we can do for them. We’re pleased to be taking our business to the next level, even in such a tight economic climate.

“The core of our successes is the outstanding engineers who build our team. The engineers, from different disciplines, will get the chance to develop their careers and work on the most interesting technical projects today.”

AVL has already embarked on its recruitment drive and said it expected to add as many as 100 engineers over the next two years.