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

Your business, Your recruitment business 28 April 2025

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.

Your recruitment business 25 April 2025

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, Your recruitment business 8 April 2025

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.

Financials, Your recruitment business 7 April 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.

Your recruitment business 3 April 2025

Pertemps makes a splash recruiting for Northumbrian Water

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

Your business, Your recruitment business 28 March 2025

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

Temp sues agency after penis severed on job

Florida-resident and Puerto Rican immigrant Edgardo Toucet is suing a staffing agency he worked for and a manager at the firm after a foam-cutting machine cut off his penis and testicles.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 15 March 2013

Heineken taps into innovative talent with IdeasBrewery

Multinational brewer Heineken tells Recruiter that gaining access to “interesting and smart people” has been a “welcome offshoot” of IdeasBrewery, a website that invites users to submit observations and insights relevant to its business.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 13 March 2013

Street Crane Company gets lift to attract engineering talent

UK industrial crane and hoist manufacturer Street Crane Company tells Recruiter it has revamped its recruitment strategy to compete more effectively with larger and better-known graduate employers by moving to “a more proactive” approach.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 13 March 2013

Volkswagen is Germany’s most attractive employer

Car maker Volkswagen is Germany’s most attractive employer, according to a survey of 13,000 German workers undertaken by the nation’s Focus news magazine and professional social network Xing.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 13 March 2013

ALP appoints Roberts as non-exec chair

The Association of Labour Providers (ALP) has appointed Kevin Roberts as non-executive chair. Having recently been director general of the National Farmers Union, Roberts joins the ALP following a career within the food and agricultural sectors. He was previously chief executive officer at the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board and director general of the Meat and Livestock Commission. David Camp, director of ALP, says: “Labour providers play a vital role in the UK economy by reliably and
Your recruitment business 12 March 2013

FS Commercial hits back at GLA

Umbrella firm FS Commercial (FSC) has it back at a statement by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLS) issued last week over its decision not to proceed with a judicial review of an Employment Tribunal, which agreed with not granting FSC a licence.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 12 March 2013

Apprenticeships Watch: KFC, May Gurney and Santander to recruit

As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off, with Prime Minster David Cameron set today to call for apprenticeships to become the “new norm” for those choosing not to go to university after leaving school, three major UK companies are set to hire in apprentice positions.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 11 March 2013

Year and a day plus fine for staffing firm supplying illegal aliens

The director of a Pennsylvania recruitment firm has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison after pleading guilty to supplying illegal foreign workers to clients, who were given wages under the table without payments for various tax and insurance schemes made.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 11 March 2013

gap personnel makes Roberts MD, Dewhurst CEO

Mark Roberts has been made the managing director of industrial staffing business gap personnel, while the firm’s founder Gary Dewhurst takes on the role of chief executive officer and UK operations director Emma Ceballos returns from a 12-month sabbatical.
Your recruitment business 8 March 2013

Jaguar Land Rover to hire for 1,400 ‘skilled jobs’

Automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced plan to create a new £500m Engine Manufacturing Centre in the UK, creating almost 1,400 new “highly skilled engineering and manufacturing jobs”, according to the company.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 5 March 2013

Jobs Watch: Chrysler to invest, add 1,250 jobs in Indiana

Car maker Chrysler Group is to invest nearly $374m (£248m) in boosting transmission production in two plants in Indiana, creating around 1,250 new jobs at the firm.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 1 March 2013

Outsource UK makes senior hire up North

IT and technical recruitment firm Outsource UK has appointed two new senior managers, Stuart Rutter and Doug Jameson.
Your recruitment business 1 March 2013

Jobs Watch: Guidewire Software, Rosti McKechnie

Insurance industry software firm Guidewide Software is expanding in Dublin, while a new order sees Yorkshire firm Rosti McKechnie ready to hire 200 people.
Your recruitment business 28 February 2013

FINANCIALS: CDI, Heidrick, Robert Walters

Technical recruiter CDI Corp and professional staffing firm Robert Walters both saw their businesses grow, while net revenues at executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles took a major hit.
Your recruitment business 27 February 2013

Veredus recruits for expanded private sector offerings

Veredus, the executive recruitment arm of outsourcing giant Capita, has made eight new hires as it launches new private sector practices to broaden its reach.
Your recruitment business 22 February 2013

Met Police to investigate construction ‘blacklist’

The Metropolitan Police is to investigate claims that police co-operated to blacklist a total of 3,213 construction workers on a list that was maintained by a company called the Consulting Association and used by over 40 construction companies.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 22 February 2013
Top