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 Malaysia: Opportunities at new factory

As will be reported in next week’s April edition of Recruiter, Malaysia is a land of opportunity and challenge for recruiters.

Jobs Watch: Hiring in Devon, Dublin and East Kilbride

New jobs are coming to business analytics and software firm SAS, pharmaceutical giant Novartis and two Devon manufacturers.

Stay in UK for defence jobs, PM urges Scots

Prime Minister David Cameron has stressed the importance of the defence industry as a provider of jobs in Scotland – jobs he suggests could be lost if the country gained independence.

Jobs Watch: VW to hire 50,000 by 2018, mostly beyond Europe

Car giant Volkswagen (VW) will employ an extra 50,000 people by 2018 and is hoping to become the biggest car company in the world.

Jobs Watch: CH2M Hill and KFC

Engineering firm CH2M Hill is to create 500 jobs in the UK over a range of disciplines following an acquisition, while restaurant chain KFC will add 1,600 jobs within the company.

GLA refusal of ‘phoenix’ company licence upheld

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has welcomed an appeals court’s upholding of its decision to revoke the license of a business whose new director’s previous company had folded, with over £100k in unpaid tax.

Jobs Watch: Roles touch down with Bristow and Nypro

Medical devices firm Nypro is to create over 200 new jobs in Waterford, South-West Ireland, while US offshore services firm Bristow says it will bring 350 new jobs to the UK after winning a contract to operate search and rescue (SAR) helicopter services.

Transline takes sales manager from Blue Arrow

Industrial and driving recruiter Transline Resource Group has taken on Dan Carlin as group sales manager.

Jobs Watch: Cambridge Consultants, Seda UK

One firm in South Wales and another in the East of England are to create new jobs.

US stick to their guns: jobs created by nationwide debate

A knock-on effect of ongoing debates around the future of gun ownership restrictions in the US has been to create employment.

Illegal labour supplier in Dorset gets 200 hours unpaid work after GLA investigates

A Dorset farmer who illegally supplied farms with milking workers and then failed to pay wages has been ordered by Weymouth Magistrates’ Court to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work.

Infiniti has Lasaga as global head HR

Premium autos maker Infiniti Motor Company has appointed Antonio Lasaga as general manager and global head of its human resources division.

Matchtech wins UK Power, retains BAE and Xchanging

Technical and professional recruiter Matchtech Group has won a new contract to work with UK Power Networks and seen its contract working with BAE Systems through its partner Xchanging Procurement Service extended.

ALP appoints Intersoftware as first technology partner

Recruitment software supplier Intersoftware Recruitment Solutions has signed an agreement to become software solutions service partner to the Association of Labour Providers (ALP).

Smart Resourcing 2013: It’s good to be scared

In-house recruiters from a wide range of private and public sector organisations gathered in London at Recruiter’s Smart Resourcing 2013 conference, sponsored by Eploy, to listen and learn from leading thinker John Vlastelica in a keynote talk sponsored by Jobsite, and practitioners in the field of resourcing and recruiting, to network with fellow professionals and go 2 Steps Beyond

Aerospace Technology Institute to see sector skills soar

The UK government is pledging £1bn to an aerospace industry strategy, which will be met by £1bn match funding from industry, with the creation of an Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) at the centre of the plans.
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