RENFE seeks 675 new employees in largest-ever mass job offer in its history

RAIL board RENFE has just launched the biggest-ever recruitment drive in its history: a total of 675 jobs are up for grabs, most of which are permanent positions.

The transport firm is seeking 375 train drivers, 115 maintenance and manufacturing operators, and 115 sales staff, plus 70 technical and structural employees.

Applications from candidates with various different qualifications will be considered.

Some of these will involve existing temporary workers being made permanent, whilst others require brand-new outside staff being taken on, largely to replace employees who have left or retired in the last few years.

This is the third recruitment drive on RENFE's part in two years, and its largest since it set up as an independent service provider in 2005.

Back in June 2015, the first mass employment offer since the financial crisis went live with 75 new staff members taken on, and in May the following year, a whopping 522 jobs were advertised.

The latest offer exceeds both the previous two put together.