Engineering

APPOINTMENTS: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eames Consulting, Faststream Recruitment Group, Gi Group, Heidrick & Struggles, Oyster, Starfish Search, Sellick Partnership

Supplier, Your business 28 April 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Jobmatch Sweden, Matchtech, Meet Life Sciences, Right Management, Synergy

Cobalt Recruitment appoints new UK managing director

Cobalt Recruitment has announced the appointment of Maria Sinclair as the new managing director of its UK operations.

NEW TO THE MARKET: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s new launches include: Busy Bee Recruitment, Deel

Supplier, Your business 14 April 2025

Cheshire-headquartered Gap Personnel acquired by Rcapital

Cheshire-headquartered recruitment agency Gap Personnel has been acquired by Rcapital in a corporate carve-out.

FINANCIALS: Gattaca bucks trend in first half of 2025

Engineering and infrastructure recruiter Gattaca has reported a “robust” financial performance for the first half of 2025.

Associated British Ports names Parr new group HRD

Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest port operator, has appointed Rachael Parr (pictured) as its new group HR director.

Airswift expands board with two industry non-exec directors

Airswift, a global workforce solutions provider, has appointed Melody Meyer and Don Sloan as independent non-executive board members.

Pertemps makes a splash recruiting for Northumbrian Water

UK-wide recruitment agency Pertemps has been awarded the managed service contract for Northumbrian Water.

Singapore recruiters not worried about slowdown in job creation

Singapore recruiters say they are not worried about the predicted slowdown in creation of skilled jobs and that there is still a war for top talent.
Your recruitment business 4 February 2015

Persimmon Homes to open school for ex-military personnel in London

Persimmon Homes is to open a new school in London to train and recruit ex-military personnel to plug skills gaps.

ITS Marine partners with industry body IMarEST

Southampton-based global marine recruiter ITS Marine has partnered with industry body the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST).
Your recruitment business 4 February 2015

Rate of construction jobs creation falls for second month in a row

Purchasing managers in the construction sector witnessed a slower rate in job creation in January for a consecutive month, but this has not filtered through to construction recruiters as of yet, agencies say.
Your recruitment business 3 February 2015

Skilled job creation to slow in Singapore

Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) predicts fewer skilled jobs will be created in the sovereign city-state this year in light of increased uncertainty in the global economy.
Your recruitment business 3 February 2015

US government invests $500m in getting people back to work

The US government is to invest $500m (£333m) to fund training to help the unemployed back into work and alleviate anticipated skills shortages.

Encore Personnel expects increased turnover and headcount in 2015

Blue-collar staffing specialist Encore Personnel anticipates a 30% increase in turnover to £60m, and has budgeted an 18% increase in headcount in 2015.
Your recruitment business 2 February 2015

Leap29 enters bigger Houston premises

Jobs board Leap29, specialising in oil & gas and engineering roles, has relocated its Houston office to larger premises on Woodway Drive.
Your recruitment business 2 February 2015

Former recruitment firm boss pleads guilty to non-payment of worker

Andrew Hayter, former director of recruitment firm WHG Offshore, has pleaded guilty of failure to pay a jobseeker after the firm went into administration in 2012.
Your recruitment business 30 January 2015

Spencer Ogden hires and promotes

Global energy recruiter Spencer Ogden has promoted Brad Lewington to EMEA [Europe, Middle East and Africa] director, a combined role with his current position as head of Asia Pacific (APAC).
Your recruitment business 30 January 2015

Regional Recruitment Services hires two

Taher Rahman and Michael Townsend join East Midlands-based, multi-sector recruiter Regional Recruitment Services as technical and engineering specialists.
Your recruitment business 30 January 2015

NES Global Talent up for sale?

Global investment firm KKR & Co is considering making an offer for UK oil & gas recruiter NES Global Talent, financial news media organisation Bloomberg has reported.
Your recruitment business 29 January 2015

Matchtech’s acquisition to significantly expand international reach

Matchtech Group’s proposed acquisition of technology and telecoms recruiter Networkers International will give the company significant international reach, chief executive Brian Wilkinson says.
Your recruitment business 29 January 2015

Smith’s Engineering Works, Kestrel Foods create jobs in Northern Ireland

Advanced engineering company Smith’s Engineering Works (NI) is to create 12 new engineering jobs in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

Waitrose turns to career portal and Jobcentre Plus to fill 2,000 roles

Waitrose is to use a combination of its own careers site and Jobcentre Plus to fill 2,000 new roles this year.

Air Energi adopts Bullhorn software

Energy sector recruiter Air Energi has adopted Bullhorn’s cloud-based software-as-a-service CRM (customer relationship management) solution across its global network.
Your recruitment business 28 January 2015
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