Renfe expands the workforce of its workshops in Valladolid with the incorporation of 72 new workers

• Powered by 68 operators and 4 additional engineers, among other tasks, the maintenance of bogies of the entire S104 fleet • Renfe plans investments until 2024 worth almost 4.5 million euros in the BMI of Valladolid • The Valladolid Comprehensive Maintenance Base is a European reference, with state-of-the-art technology

November 7, 2023.- Renfe, in its commitment to job creation, has expanded the workforce of the Comprehensive Maintenance Base (BMI) of Valladolid with 72 new workers, who join the company as permanent staff, which represents 15% of the total workforce of the workshops in San Isidro.

The BMI of Valladolid, a reference at European level and leading in state-of-the-art technology, will end in 2023 with a total of 484 workers. The new additions correspond to operational personnel (68 workers), to perform mechanical tasks, electrical repairs, plumbers, torneros and supply personnel. The new additions are completed with 4 new engineers.

With these additions, Renfe bets on its Manufacturing and Maintenance company and powers the workshops in Valladolid, currently with a workload of 700,000 hours per year, which is expected to increase by more than 7% in 2024, thanks to this increase in staff.

The BMI will also take advantage of this increase in staff to implement new work tasks and incorporate high-speed component work, performing as a novelty the maintenance of bogies of the entire fleet of S104 trains (trains that habitually perform the Avant services of Renfe in different territories) and brake components, hitches and more of the S121.

Short-term investments

Renfe plans investments in 2023 and 2024 worth almost 4.5 million euros in the BMI of Valladolid, completed this year or already in execution. Due to the increase in staff, Renfe has invested almost 1 million euros in the workshops in Valladolid to install new changing rooms. This work is already under way and is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2024. Almost 2.5 million euros have also been invested in a new paint booth, already in use and at full performance.

The rest of the amount will go to other improvements such as new conveyors of the so-called “boxes or cars” that make up the train, a ship to expand storage capacity, more equipment or acquisition of tooling, among others.