Industrial/Manufacturing

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

FINANCIALS: Staffline results exceed market expectations

Recruitment group Staffline has announced a strong performance for the year ended 31 December 2024.

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.

Pertemps makes a splash recruiting for Northumbrian Water

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

APPOINTMENTS: 10-14 MARCH 2025

This week’s appointments include: Acorn by Synergie, Benenden Health, Clarkson Owens, Compass Group UK & Ireland, Finity, Mitie

DEI, Supplier 14 March 2025

BAE Systems sees cyber security growth posting grads to Detica

Security and defence giant BAE Systems has made a clear signal of its priorities for the workforce of the future, by placing nearly half of its 2013 graduate intake into its cyber and security business Detica.

FINANCIALS: More from recruiters Encore and Steria in 2012

Blue collar recruiter Encore Personnel and IT staffing firm Steria Recruitment both saw upturns in turnover in the year to 31 December 2012.

New HR director in place at Autoglass

Vehicle glass service firm Autoglass, which employs 2,300 people across the UK, has appointed Niki Coppard as its new HR director.

GLA revokes Peterborough recruiter’s licence over multiple violations

Peterborough recruitment agency INTERecruit has had its Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) licence revoked, after inspectors from the organisation discovered multiple breaches of conditions.

FINANCIALS: Chunky growth as Fircroft profit nears £50m

Engineering and technical recruiter Fircroft saw gross profit rise 29.9% year-on-year to £49.02m in the 12 months to 31 August 2012, as turnover increased by 31.6% to £725.4m.

New campus for Apple to build jobs in California

A new technology campus for tech giant Apple would create 9,200 construction jobs over its three-year build period, house 7,400 new Apple employees, and support 4,600 new permanent jobs in the local area.

Assist acquires North-West rival Top Gear Recruitment

Supply chain, production and manufacturing recruiter Assist Recruitment has acquired rival Manchester-based recruiter Top Gear Recruitment.

Transline calls up Collier for training and development

Paul Collier has been appointed national training and development manager for industrial and driving recruitment agency Transline Group.

BMW ‘gives something back’ by recruiting Spanish youths in Germany

A pilot programme from auto giant BMW aims to “give something back” to customer countries in economic toil, but it is giving by taking – with 25 Spanish youths set to head to the firm’s German headquarters in Munich.

Business and services again lead Korean jobs growth

South Korea’s ‘business, personal, public and other services’ industry again took the position of fastest-growing sector in terms of workforce for Q1 2013, finds the Korea Labor Institute’s May ‘Trends in the Labor Market’ report.

Corporate lettings market rises with senior talent demand

Activity in Asia led the way as businesses increased their spending on relocating and hiring senior staff around the world in 2012, according to estate agency Knight Frank’s ‘Global Corporate Lettings Review 2013’.

A chance to shine: YourFoodJob People Awards get bigger and better for 2013

Held for the first time last year, in association with Recruiter magazine, the 2013 YourFoodJob People Awards are back to celebrate exceptional work in HR, recruitment and resourcing in the food and beverage industry.

Cook commits to serving up new Apple jobs in US

The boss of tech giant Apple has said the company will create jobs in Texas and Illinois with the investment of $100m (£66m) in the production of new Mac computers.

Templine Employment signs a deal for A&A

Logistics recruiter Templine Employment Agency has bought Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire-based A&A Recruitment.

Prevention and cure better together at GLA

The chief executive officer of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has promised a twin-track approach to the body’s remit of regulating the supply of workers in various horticultural, agricultural and shellfish gathering industries.

Jobs Watch: New roles making boats, in the air and processing meat

New jobs are being created across England, and in Wales and Northern Ireland at an airline, a shipbuilder, and a meat factory.
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