GE Transportation was a great growth story last year. The unit, which manufactures high-tech locomotives, mining equipment and other heavy machinery announced more than 2,400 jobs in the U.S. in 2011. It will invest over $400 million to open new plants and upgrade facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas. It also reported $2.1 billion in revenues for the first half of 2011, up 45% over the same period a year ago, and profits at $335 million, up 135%.
October 23, 2011
US industrial group General Electric (GE) chairperson John Krenicki, also president and CEO of GE Energy, said on Wednesday the company remained committed to job creation in sub-Saharan Africa. Speaking at the launch of its expanded manufacturing facility in Midrand, he said the energy division had created some 20 000 new jobs globally through its acquisitions and technology developments and hoped that would be the case for the sub-Saharan region.
October 16, 2011
GE has started looking at Africa in a new light. In early 2000, at a time when most would have been afraid to place a bet on the region, GE decided to create a strategy for Africa, and the company tasked Yibrah Tesfazghi, a national from Eritrea, to come up with it. To do this he and his colleague Swaady Martin-Leke developed what became known as the AFRICA framework. By applying this framework GE has become a vital part of Africa’s growth story. Once present only in the oil and gas sector, all of GE’s businesses are now represented throughout the continent, and their activities include manufacturing and training.
September 12, 2011
On today’s jobcast I’ll be speaking with Charles Elazar, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Marketing Director for GE Industrial Solutions. Industrial Solutions is a key part of GE Energy, which is dedicated to electrification and serves a wide variety of industries and applications.
May 16, 2011
Graduates in search of careers in the energy sector are in luck as industry recruitment figures increase annually due to the growth of power needs in developing countries. Joe Chalouhi, Senior Human Resources Manager for the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) at General Electric (GE) spoke to Gulf News about graduate recruitment into the energy sector.
