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.

WRS appoints Wells as new finance director

Altrincham-based Worldwide Recruitment Solutions (WRS), the specialist recruiters for the global oil & gas, marine, mining and power sectors, has appointed Matt Wells as finance director.

THOMAS Recruitment makes two appointments

Cardiff-based manufacturing recruitment specialist THOMAS Recruitment has made two appointments.

New vacancies up 25% in first half of 2014, says reed.co.uk

The number of new job vacancies in the UK from January to June 2014 grew by more than 25% year-on-year, figures released by reed.co.uk show.

CDE Global expansion to create 50 new jobs

Northern Ireland firm CDE Global, a designer and manufacturer of washing equipment for construction and mining industries based in Cookstown, has invested £3m, creating 50 new jobs.

Call for the creation of regional polytechnics to plug technology skills gap

NEF: The Innovation Institute is calling for the creation of regional polytechnics to compensate for a shifting jobs landscape and the changing skills requirements of companies operating in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) based sectors.

Carillion to support Liverpool FC stand expansion

Support services giant Carillion has been selected as the preferred bidder to expand Liverpool Football Club's main stand and the associated public realm improvements.

Funding support for Sir Ben Ainslie’s sailing HQ that will create jobs in Portsmouth

The government has announced £7.5m funding to support sailor Sir Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup team and their proposal to be based in Portsmouth – a move that would create around 90 jobs.

Job creation within UK construction sector soars

June experienced the fastest expansion in the UK's construction activity since February, with employment growing at its steepest pace since the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) began for the sector in April 1997.

Two firms give jobs boost for Belfast

New jobs are being created across Belfast, thanks to help from investment company Invest Northern Ireland (NI).

Work Shop Recruitment promotes Bayless to branch manager

The Work Shop Recruitment Agency has promoted Georgina Bayless to branch manager of its Poole, Dorset branch after 18 months as a senior recruitment consultant in Ringwood, Hampshire.

IDA Ireland helps bring jobs to Dublin

IDA Ireland, Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency, alongside the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, is helping two companies expand and add jobs in Ireland.

More vacancies than jobseekers in 20 cities, says Adzuna

Twenty UK cities now have more vacancies than jobseekers, according to the latest Adzuna Jobs Report.

Engineering stops being a dirty word for school leavers, CIPD conference hears

The difficulty of attracting young people to careers in manufacturing and engineering was described today at the CIPD talent management conference in London.

Royal Navy contract secures 100 jobs

More than 100 engineering jobs have been protected in Portsmouth on the South coast, thanks to a £70m contract to support the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers.

Engineers launch campaign to attract more women

Companies are being urged to look again at their recruitment and retention policies to ensure they are doing everything possible to attract more women into engineering.

Thompson Aero Seating creates 85 manufacturing jobs in Northern Ireland

Thompson Aero Seating, the designer and manufacturer of business class seats for commercial airlines, is creating 85 manufacturing jobs in Portadown after a £10m investment in the company.
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