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.

RESULTS: Demand for contractors boosts Matchtech NFI by 26%

Engineering, science, technology and professional services recruiter Matchtech Group grew its net fee income (NFI) by 26% as it benefitted from a continuing increase in demand for contractors.

New Nissan hatchback has 225 jobs in store

Car maker Nissan is to start producing a new mid-sized model from 2014, which is due to bring 225 new jobs at its Sunderland plant, and create a further 900 in the supply chain.
10 April 2012

INTERNATIONAL Europe: Germany again leads online job growth

An 8% year-on-year growth in online recruitment was again driven by strong growth in Germany, with declines in four of the seven countries surveyed.
10 April 2012

Jaguar Land Rover to create a thousand jobs – or should that be 8,000?

Auto maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is creating 1,000 new jobs at its Halewood, Merseyside facility – and as Recruiter learns, the supply chain could benefit substantially.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Morson takes on Simpson

Technical staffer Morson International has taken on Martin Simpson as senior recruitment executive in its Aberdeen office.

UK labour market ‘heading in the right direction’, says Reed

The latest job index from recruiter Reed shows the number of online job postings rose by 9% in Q1 2012 compared to the same period in 2011.
5 April 2012

INTERNATIONAL: US Matteson Partners launches ExactSource for RPO market

US Matteson Partners, the Atlanta-based retained search firm, has formed a new subsidiary to compete in the recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) market.

Bentley Motors gets extra RGF and jobs

Car maker Bentley Motors has secured a further £3m regional growth fund (RGF) monies from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), which on top of £1.69m funds secured in January, means the firm will create a total of 500 new jobs.
4 April 2012

Construction: good news but lack of big projects could hamper prospects

Employment in the construction sector grew in March as activity in the UK’s construction sector jumped to a near two-year high, according to the latest Markit/CIPS construction PMI survey. This was after employment in the sector fell in both January and February.

Barker Ross goes for £58m goal with nine new divisions

Leicester-based recruiter Barker Ross Group has restructured, creating nine dedicated divisions of its business as it aims for £58m turnover by 2015 – more than double its current £22m total.

International growth strategy boosts ReThink Group

Business and technology recruitment consultancy The ReThink Group has begun to benefit from its strategy of international expansion, as it announces an increase in earnings.
3 April 2012

Social media leads the way in 2011

Applications to jobs posted on Facebook rose by 1,000%, while applications to jobs on Twitter increased by 500% in 2011, according to the sales director of Broadbean Technology. These figures were based on an analysis of jobs posted by Broadbean’s users last year, compared with 2010.

Morson revenues up 11% but expects another ‘challenging’ year

Group revenues at technical staffing firm Morson for 2011 were £507.9m, up 11% from 2010’s total of £457.6m.

Berkley Recruitment Group to launch in UK

Multi-sector global recruiter Berkley Group is entering the UK engineering and pharma & life sciences markets with a formal launch next month, Recruiter can exclusively reveal.

INTERNATIONAL Canada: Toyota and Ford adding new jobs

Newspaper Vancouver Sun reports that auto makers Toyota and Ford will hire an additional 500 workers in the province of Ontario at their respective facilities in Woodstock and Windsor.

Contractors under pressure to switch to PSC

Contractors are switching from umbrella companies to setting up their own limited companies due to pressure from agencies and employers, according to directors of umbrella companies.
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