Jaguar Land Rover to help with new workers' living costs
Job seekers from outside the West Midlands are being offered help with paying their rent and buying a house if they move to Wolverhampton to work for Jaguar Land Rover.
The luxury car maker is spending £500 million building an engine plant at the i54 business park, where it will create 1,400 jobs.
Wolverhampton City Council and Staffordshire County Council are spending £36.7m on a slip road from the M54 motorway as part of the deal.
People taken on permanently or temporarily at the firm will be offered help to cover their rent and living costs, legal, estate agent and survey costs to buy a home, removal and storage expenses and a settling-in allowance on top of their salaries.
Anyone moving from overseas will have their flights and shipping paid for as well.
Jobs currently being advertised include a maintenance engineer and tooling engineer, both on £35,000 a year, skilled trades on £28,000 to £34,500, a production supervisor on £35,000 to £45,000 and "competitive" rates for tooling and gauging staff, cylinder head machinists and a reliability engineer.
The closing date for applications will be May 31.
Gavin Williamson, MP for South Staffordshire, said that he hoped the majority of jobs would go to local people.
He said: "The engine plant represents an opportunity for wealth and growth for this region. It will cement the West Midlands as a centre of engine manufacturing for Europe. It is very exciting that job opportunities are now starting to be advertised."
The JLR plant is one of the biggest boosts to Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire for decades.
