The reds from the Borgo Panigale factory are smiling! Even though the long-awaited victory did not come in Qatar, Ducati returns from Losail leading the MotoGP World Championship with Pramac team rider Johann Zarco and great news in the production area. Indeed, to cope with a peak in demand, Ducati will hire more than 200 people in the coming weeks. A good sign, both for the Bolognese company, which has always been at the forefront of excellence in its field, and for the global economic recovery.
Forced to close during the early stages of the health emergency, the Borgo Panigale factory is back at full capacity after the pandemic. A surge in orders forced the Bolognese company to hire more than 250 new employees.
After a very difficult 2020 but generally positive figures, Ducati passed the second and started 2021 with optimism, since the Bologna factory will recruit staff. Two effects combine: a significant increase in orders for motorcycles to be delivered before summer, combined with delays in the arrival of materials that occurred due to the pandemic and which slowed down production.
Mario Morgese, Ducati Industrial Relations Manager and Industrial HR Director, specifies that “we must recover and respond to the requests, never so numerous, which arrived in the first part of the year. At a time of seasonality as important as this, we need a very large number of seasonal workers to cover the excess work during the months of April and May. »
The new hires will thus join the nearly 600 qualified workers already present and, at least until May 31, 250 other “seasonal workers” will work in the engine and vehicle assembly department. Recruitment was also initiated among employees of companies in crisis in the region.
Although at Ducati, the use of seasonal workers for spring production increases is common, it usually involves around 40 people. This time the opportunity is much bigger and much more attractive. A great turning point, encouraging for the entire motorcycle world, and perhaps unexpected given the contractions linked to the pandemic.
