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.

INTERNATIONAL Australia: Controversy over migrant worker allowance for miner

The iron ore mining project Roy Hill has come under criticism after Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen allowed it to sponsor up to 1,715 foreign workers.

Contracts/Deals: Resource Group acquires Real-Time Consultants

Engineering, manpower and training solutions provider Resource Group has appointed engineering and technical recruiter Real-Time Consultants Group (RTC). The companies will work in partnership, although RTC will continue to trade under its own name from current offices in Bristol and Leamington Spa.
25 May 2012

Romax looks to create 100 new jobs as it moves to innovation park

Engineering firm Romax is looking to create around 100 new jobs in Nottingham and across the UK in the next three to five years, as it confirms it will move from Nottingham Science Park to the University of Nottingham’s Innovation Park (UNIP).

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Ramsey Hall MD takes Aeronautical Society role

Phil Boyle, managing director of Southampton talent management firm The Ramsey Hall Group, has taken up the role of president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Boyle remains in his role with Ramsey Hall, whose operations include significant focus on the aerospace and manufacturing areas. Boyle himself is a pilot and chartered engineer.

Confidence in employment dips slightly in April

Employer confidence dipped slightly in April from a record high level in March, reveals the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) JobsOutlook survey, based on responses from 200 UK employers. It shows that 66% of firms are due to increase their use of permanent workers in the next three months, with only 6% predicting a slight decrease, and none foreseeing significant decreases.

Class of 2012 make record number of applications

Final year university students are pushing hard to enter the job market after graduation, but the number of jobs available to them remains below pre-recession levels. This is according to two reports from High Fliers Research: the ‘UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012’ and ‘The Graduate Market in 2012’, based respectively on surveys of 17,737 final year student at 30 UK universities in March, and 100 top employers in December of last year.
Emerging talent 23 May 2012

RESULTS: Profits rise 7% at Eurostaff

Energy and technology recruiter Eurostaff Group has seen a 7% increase in profits in the nine-month period to 31 December 2011 compared with the previous year.

Leamington Spa recruitment MD defends scam-hit town

Leamington Spa is far from a town rife with recruitment-based fraud, Mark Esom, managing director of locally-based recruiter Fuel Recruitment, tells Recruiter. “I think the headline on the story is worse than the reality,” he says, referring to a recruiter.co.uk story of last Friday (17 May), suggesting that the fraud is “probably a couple of rogue individuals”.
22 May 2012

MoD submarine design contract supports and creates 1,900 jobs

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded contracts worth £350m to three UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines, sustaining and creating a total of 1,900 jobs across the UK.
22 May 2012

INTERNATIONAL US: Toyota brings 125 new jobs to Alabama

Auto maker Toyota will create 125 new jobs as it expands its Huntsville, Alabama engine manufacturing plant.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Stafforce appoints Brammer as director of services

Multi-sector recruiter Stafforce has appointed Paul Brammer as director of services. This is a newly created role to grow Stafforce’s consultancy services, which complement its traditional recruitment services. Brammer joined the Stafforce in July 2011 from the skills and employability sector. Since joining Stafforce, he has worked as business manager for special projects, focusing on developing opportunities beyond Stafforce’s traditional core recruitment business.

Contracts/Deals: Orion provides for Shell

Technical recruiter Orion Group has secured a four-year enterprise framework agreement (EFA) with utilities giant Shell to provide manpower across engineering disciplines for the company.

Barker Ross spends £20k on e-training for temps

Multi-sector recruiter Barker Ross has invested over £20,000 into an e-training programme for temporary workers to ensure their safety in the food, agriculture, logistics, waste and industrial sectors.

Hanson-Hulme launches with Positive funding

Multi-sector North-West recruiter Hanson-Hulme Recruitment Specialists has launched having received £50k funding from invoice finance firm Positive Cashflow Finance.

Staffline turns down acquisition opportunities

The group chief executive of industrial outsourcing and staffing business Staffline Group says he has turned down two opportunities to buy failed industrial recruiters in the last month.

INTERNATIONAL US: Saline office for Belcan

Technical staffing firm Belcan Staffing Solutions has opened its 26th office in Saline, Michigan.
18 May 2012
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