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

Jobs Watch: New roles thanks to Kentish tomatoes, Hartlepool bricklayers and Subways in petrol stations

Jobs are due to be created at APS Salads, a tomato firm in Kent, in a Hartlepool bricklaying firm being supported by a Tata enterprise, and up and down the country’s motorways at Euro Garages service stations.

ILO makes proposals after visiting Bangladesh blaze factory

Reform to labour law, a programme to retrain workers who suffered disabling injuries and recruitment of 200 industrial inspectors are among proposals following the collapse of a garment factory in Savar on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.

Jobs Watch: Engineers needed at Nissan; jobs at Associated Seafoods and Galgorm Castle

New roles are being created in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland across three separate projects.

Re-shoring of manufacturing jobs to bring 200,000 jobs to UK

A report out yesterday suggests that as many as 200,000 new jobs in the manufacturing industry could be created over the next decade as outsourcing declines significantly.

2B Interface launches recruitment agency franchise scheme

Professional and trades recruitment agency 2B Interface has launched a nationwide franchise scheme.

Inspiring the Future gets Aston Martin and Serco on board

Sports car maker Aston Martin and outsourcing and services firm Serco are among firms to commit to taking part in the Inspiring the Future initiative organised by the Education and Employers Taskforce.

First4Staff opens Cannock office

Industrial, commercial, education and driving recruiter First4Staff has opened its third group branch in Cannock town centre, Staffordshire.

Finding the next generation

As more and more companies turn to ‘earning by learning’ to attract talent, Colin Cottell discovers that sourcing and training the next generation of talent is an ever-changing process

TechBacc to boost occupational and vocational education

Skills minister Matthew Hancock has unveiled a new Technical Baccalaureate to “give vocational education the high status it deserved” – on a par with A-Level study – for students aged 16-19.

Recruiters celebrate winning Queen’s Award

Four firms providing staffing services are today celebrating winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise – the UK’s highest accolade for business success.

Scottish construction recruiters ‘shocked’ that blacklisting may go on

Two Scottish recruitment consultancies operating in the construction sector have expressed shock at a Parliamentary committee’s suggestion that major construction firms may still be using a known ‘blacklist’ of workers.

Volt gets managed service deal with Air Products

Recruitment outsourcer Volt Consulting Group has secured a three-year managed service provision contract with industrial gas, chemicals and equipment provider Air Products.

Uniflex Staffing gets national deal with Metso

Swedish recruiter Uniflex Staffing has won a contract valid through to 2015 with engineering and technology corporation Metso.

NRL refinances with Barclays, looks to acquisitions

Recruitment and technical services business NRL Group has agreed a £16m refinance deal with Barclays.

Matchtech, Right4Staff up, Hays down as Asia Pacific falters

Net fee income (NFI) at Hays fell by 3% in the quarter ending 31 March compared to the same quarter last year.

Jobs Watch: Hiring at Jet2 and Müller

Airline Jet2 and consumer goods maker Müller Wiseman are set to hire in the coming months.
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