Technical and engineering recruiters Scantec, NRL and GPW recruitment have formed the Hertel Research Alliance to serve industrial services firm Hertel.

The firms will supply Hertel with all its recruitment needs in the UK and Ireland over the next three years. Hertel employs around 3,500 people and constructs, maintains and modifies plant and installations for the oil and gas, petrochemical, process and power generation industries as well as working within the marine and offshore industries.

GPW cover the South, NRL cover Northern England and Scotland and Scantec will be responsible for the North West, Humberside and Ireland.

An HRA spokesperson adds: “Scantec, NRL and GPW all recruit from similar sectors so Hertel will benefit tremendously from the alliance. HRA has the advantage of being able to access three databases of skilled personnel with regional expertise.