Engineering

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.

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

NEW TO THE MARKET: 10-14 MARCH 2025

This week’s new launches include: Cisco, Clarkson Owens, Remote, Schneider Electric

Supplier, Your business 14 March 2025

Tennis coach Johnson builds ‘character-first’ Think Recruitment team

Birmingham recruiter Think Recruitment is proving that investing in people is the smartest business strategy.

Contracts/Deals: Ceema uses Danbro accounting

Professional, engineering and technical recruiter Ceema Recruitment has appointed Danbro as its preferred supplier of accounting and payroll services for contractors it places.

Reed.co.uk confident in job market despite index monthly fall

A 4.8% month-on-month decline in the number of new job opportunities in June should not rule out optimism in the job market, says Martin Warnes, managing director of jobsite Reed.co.uk.

INTERNATIONAL US: Airbus to hire 1,000 at first American assembly facility

Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is to employ as many as 1,000 staff in high-skilled jobs when it opens its first assembly line in the US in Mobile, Alabama.

FINANCIALS: HR GO turnover grows, but profits hit

Industrial, commercial and public sector recruiter HR GO saw turnover for 2011 rise 3% to £95.7m, but ended the year making a £498k loss.

STR takes Vortice Aviation to the skies

Specialist recruiter STR Group has expanded its aerospace division with the launch of Vortice Aviation, a separate niche entity specifically dedicated to aviation and engineering recruitment.

Apprenticeships on course to exceed last year’s total

The number of apprenticeships started between August 2011 and this April was 383,200 – at this rate of starts per month, the total for the 2011/12 academic year would exceed 500,000.
29 June 2012

General staffing recruitment up 11.5%, says Adecco

The number of full-time general staffing roles advertised in the UK rose by 1.11% across the month of May compared to the previous month, with the number of jobs up 11.5% since the year began.

INTERNATIONAL US: Auto parts firm LMV to bring 156 new jobs to Missouri

Automotive parts assembler LMV Automotive Systems will create 156 jobs in Liberty, Missouri when it opens a new factory in April 2013.

Privatisation of Morson moves a step closer

The sale of international technical staff recruiter Morson to its management team moved a step closer after the board of MMGG Acquisition, the prospective buyers, and the independent director of Morson announced they had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended offer.

Rolls-Royce to create 150 jobs in Rotherham facility

Power systems company Rolls-Royce has today begun construction of a new advanced blade casting facility in Rotherham, which will create 150 jobs.
In-house recruitment 22 June 2012

Contracts/Deals: Equistone Partners buys £140m stake in Fircroft

Private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe has paid £140m to buy a “significant stake” in recruiter Fircroft Engineering Services.
22 June 2012

UK & IRELAND Appointments: The Shorterm Group gets Sinclair

Recruitment-to-recruitment specialist Bowden Mayes has completed a search for the training and development manager for engineering and technical specialist The Shorterm Group.

VIDEO: Slashing margins not the way forward, says Laurence

Slashing margins is not the way entrepreneur and investor Gary Laurence would want one of his businesses to go forward, he tells Recruiter in this video:
20 June 2012

UK & Ireland Appointments: Betney to TEC Group International

International oil & gas recruiter TEC Group International has appointed David Betney as regional manager, based in the company’s new Manchester office.

VIDEO: Hunt looks to take ARM upwards and overseas

Miles Hunt, the recently appointed chairman of technical recruiter Advance Resource Managers (ARM), says his role will be to take the business “to the next level of growth”, including development of its international operations.
19 June 2012

INTERNATIONAL Special week-long feature on Brazil: Profile of potential imported talent put together by Intelligence Group

Consultancy and management are the areas that people thinking of moving to Brazil most want to work in, finds research from Dutch recruitment and labour market communications firm Intelligence Group (IG).
19 June 2012
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