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.

Your recruitment business 14 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

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.

Your recruitment business 1 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

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.

Your recruitment business 13 March 2025

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Ramsey Hall MD takes Aeronautical Society role

Phil Boyle, managing director of Southampton talent management firm The Ramsey Hall Group, has taken up the role of president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Boyle remains in his role with Ramsey Hall, whose operations include significant focus on the aerospace and manufacturing areas. Boyle himself is a pilot and chartered engineer.
Your recruitment business 23 May 2012

Confidence in employment dips slightly in April

Employer confidence dipped slightly in April from a record high level in March, reveals the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) JobsOutlook survey, based on responses from 200 UK employers. It shows that 66% of firms are due to increase their use of permanent workers in the next three months, with only 6% predicting a slight decrease, and none foreseeing significant decreases.
Your recruitment business 23 May 2012

Class of 2012 make record number of applications

Final year university students are pushing hard to enter the job market after graduation, but the number of jobs available to them remains below pre-recession levels. This is according to two reports from High Fliers Research: the ‘UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012’ and ‘The Graduate Market in 2012’, based respectively on surveys of 17,737 final year student at 30 UK universities in March, and 100 top employers in December of last year.
Emerging talent 23 May 2012

RESULTS: Profits rise 7% at Eurostaff

Energy and technology recruiter Eurostaff Group has seen a 7% increase in profits in the nine-month period to 31 December 2011 compared with the previous year.
Your recruitment business 23 May 2012

Leamington Spa recruitment MD defends scam-hit town

Leamington Spa is far from a town rife with recruitment-based fraud, Mark Esom, managing director of locally-based recruiter Fuel Recruitment, tells Recruiter. “I think the headline on the story is worse than the reality,” he says, referring to a recruiter.co.uk story of last Friday (17 May), suggesting that the fraud is “probably a couple of rogue individuals”.
22 May 2012

MoD submarine design contract supports and creates 1,900 jobs

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded contracts worth £350m to three UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines, sustaining and creating a total of 1,900 jobs across the UK.
22 May 2012

INTERNATIONAL US: Toyota brings 125 new jobs to Alabama

Auto maker Toyota will create 125 new jobs as it expands its Huntsville, Alabama engine manufacturing plant.
Your recruitment business 22 May 2012

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Stafforce appoints Brammer as director of services

Multi-sector recruiter Stafforce has appointed Paul Brammer as director of services. This is a newly created role to grow Stafforce’s consultancy services, which complement its traditional recruitment services. Brammer joined the Stafforce in July 2011 from the skills and employability sector. Since joining Stafforce, he has worked as business manager for special projects, focusing on developing opportunities beyond Stafforce’s traditional core recruitment business.
Your recruitment business 21 May 2012

Contracts/Deals: Orion provides for Shell

Technical recruiter Orion Group has secured a four-year enterprise framework agreement (EFA) with utilities giant Shell to provide manpower across engineering disciplines for the company.
Your recruitment business 21 May 2012

Barker Ross spends £20k on e-training for temps

Multi-sector recruiter Barker Ross has invested over £20,000 into an e-training programme for temporary workers to ensure their safety in the food, agriculture, logistics, waste and industrial sectors.
Your recruitment business 18 May 2012

Hanson-Hulme launches with Positive funding

Multi-sector North-West recruiter Hanson-Hulme Recruitment Specialists has launched having received £50k funding from invoice finance firm Positive Cashflow Finance.
Your recruitment business 18 May 2012

Staffline turns down acquisition opportunities

The group chief executive of industrial outsourcing and staffing business Staffline Group says he has turned down two opportunities to buy failed industrial recruiters in the last month.
Your recruitment business 18 May 2012

INTERNATIONAL US: Saline office for Belcan

Technical staffing firm Belcan Staffing Solutions has opened its 26th office in Saline, Michigan.
18 May 2012

INTERNATIONAL Appointments: Kemp leads Heidrick & Struggles’ industrial practice

Executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles has appointed Daren Hemp as global practice managing director of its industrial practice.
Your recruitment business 17 May 2012

INTERNATIONAL Australia: Gold Coast Airport gets approval, jobs to follow

Plans have been approved for a major development of Australia’s Gold Coast Airport, which should create nearly 2,500 full-time jobs over the next two years.
Your recruitment business 17 May 2012

UK & IRELAND Appointments: BAE appoints Minella as HRD

Defence, security and aerospace firm BAE Systems has appointed Lynn Minella as group HR director (HRD), starting 11 June this year.
Your recruitment business 16 May 2012
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