Voluntary redundancies are being sought in the Ford Bridgend Engine Plant.
The car giant wants to cut up to 10 percent of its white collar and non-production staff at Bridgend as part of a European-wide cull to cut costs.
The 36-year-old South Wales plant employs just over 2,000 people but nearly all are hourly-paid shop-floor workers and only a few dozen jobs are likely to disappear in office and non-production areas.
The automaker plans to find annual administrative savings of $200 million in the region, said Ford of Europe President Jim Farley, and it employs about 14,000 in the UK making petrol engines at Bridgend and diesels in Dagenham while it has administration, research and development staff in other British locations.
After losing $3.1 billion in Europe from 2012 through 2014, Ford had a pretax profit of $259 million in the region last year.
It plans to reduce its European manufacturing expenses by 7 percent across the board and is consulting with unions to make savings in labour costs after it closed three plants in Europe since 2013.
Ford will also make other cost reductions in selling, general and administrative expenses, including using agencies for work currently done by staff.
