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.

Contracts/Deals: Hays supplies permanent staff to Carlsberg UK

Carlsberg UK, brewer of several household name beers, has appointed recruiter Hays to supply permanent staff for roles in engineering, finance, HR, legal, office support, purchasing & logistics and sales & marketing roles.

INTERNATIONAL US: Nippon Sharyo to add 150 to train body plant

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing will add around 150 extra workers in their Rochelle, Illinois plant when its manufacturing of stainless steel railcar bodies reaches full operating levels.

INTERNATIONAL Iran: First specialist locomotive factory to employ 1,000

Iran’s first factory specialising in the production of locomotives has been opened in the city of Karaj, where it will employ 300 people immediately and 750 when the second phase of the project begins.

New training division as Project Resource looks overseas

Construction, civil engineering and infrastructure sectors recruiter Project Resource has launched a new training division as it looks to expand its offering overseas.

Martin starts Hyper Recruitment Solutions with Lord Sugar

This year’s The Apprentice winner, recruitment consultant Ricky Martin, has founded a technical recruitment company in partnership with Lord Alan Sugar, Hyper Recruitment Solutions (HRS).

Vital Solutions has 200 rail jobs

Professional and technical recruiter Vital Solutions and specialist sister company Vital Rail is currently recruiting for 200 technical positions in the signalling, overhead line and permanent way disciplines.

INTERNATIONAL Australia: 6,500 jobs on offer to 300 workers at government-funded fair

Thousands of jobs were on offer yesterday (18 July) at a jobs fair funded by the Australian government and hosted at aluminium producer Hydro Aluminium’s smelting plant at Kurri Kurri, New South Wales.

Morson nears magic 90% level of share ownership

MMGG Acquisition, the private group currently privatising technical recruiter Morson, has enough offers of its share acquisition proposals to take hold of 80.71% of total shares in the company.

Two new energy projects to create 20,000 jobs

Two new major energy projects should create 20,000 permanent and temporary jobs between them in the next few years.

Olympic profile: Delivering London 2012’s job legacy

Colin Cottell and DeeDee Doke look beyond the London 2012 Games and investigate the future impact this global spectacle will have not only on London but in the UK as a whole

Paper applications remain strong in Germany

Even in the age of the applicant tracking system, the jobsite, and smartphone apps for searching and applying for jobs, there is still a place for the paper application in Germany, Recruiter learns.

UK aerospace employment rises 4.3% in 2011, says ADS

The number of people employed in the UK’s aerospace industry in the UK rose by 4.3% to 100,658 across the year 2011, shows a reports from aerospace and associated industries body ADS Group.

INTERNATIONAL Australia: Two state ‘job co-ordinators’ for Queensland resource boom

National and state government will fund two ‘job co-ordinators’ to connect workers with job opportunities in Queensland’s booming mining and resources industry.

Monster Employment Index shows online recruitment flatlining

Job board Monster’s Employment Index for the UK shows 0% growth year-on-year in online recruitment activity in the month of June, although it crept up marginally month-on-month.

Cornwall Aerohub enterprise zone could create 2,500 jobs

Aerospace industry enterprise zone Aerohub, based at Newquay Airport in Cornwall, will create 2,500 new jobs, the government hopes.

ADS to inspire 10,000 schoolchildren for future tech jobs at airshow

Aerospace, defence, security and space trade body ADS Group is to bring up to 10,000 young people to the Farnborough International Airshow this Friday (13 July).
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