Volkswagen will double its St. Thomas workforce by year’s end, hiring more than 400 employees as the automaker ramps up staffing, the company announced on Thursday.

PowerCo, Volkswagen’s electric battery division, says it’s adding workers and creating a training program for area schools to prepare an electric-vehicle manufacturing workforce.

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“We’re moving fast,” said Norman Wickboldt, head of recruitment for PowerCo. “The plan is we will increase hiring to more than 400 by year end. We’re ramping up.”

PowerCo will soon unveil a recruitment campaign from London to Windsor, including billboard ads along the Highway 401 corridor, he said.

Current job postings are largely in the engineering and technology areas, and next year hiring will take place for the manufacturing

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