Industrial/Manufacturing

NEW TO THE MARKET: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Matchtech, Jobmatch Sweden

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

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

Lockheed Martin boosts Britain’s space race

US defence and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is to bolster Britain’s space race by setting up its own Space Systems business with the potential of employing hundreds of people within the next 10 years.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 16 July 2014

£90m Royal Navy missile contract sustains UK jobs

Three hundred UK jobs will be sustained thanks to a £90m Royal Navy contract that sees the new Wildcat attack helicopters fitted with next-generation precision missiles.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 16 July 2014

Manufacturing skills gap and retention needs to be addressed, say recruiters

Hidden beneath the recently reported rise in UK employment figures is a severe shortage of applicants with the necessary skills to work in industry, says a UK recruitment expert.
Your recruitment business, Emerging talent 15 July 2014

Manufacturers need to re-evaluate recruitment process

Generalist recruitment agencies that send sub-par candidates through to customers in manufacturing are only contributing to the bottlenecks building up in a market already hindered by increasing skills shortages.
Your recruitment business 10 July 2014

Scottish shipbuilding will sink after independence

Shipbuilding in Scotland will die and thousands of jobs will be lost if the country votes for independence in September, say trade union chiefs in a report in the Financial Times.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 9 July 2014

Vauxhall secures jobs in Ellesmere Port, creates 250 in Luton

Car-maker Vauxhall is to create 550 jobs at its plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 8 July 2014

Foshan city in Guangdong province recruits foreigners to boost exports

Five foreign professionals have been recruited by a local government department in Southern China to foster and improve connections with export markets, according to the China Daily.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 8 July 2014

THOMAS Recruitment makes two appointments

Cardiff-based manufacturing recruitment specialist THOMAS Recruitment has made two appointments.
Your recruitment business 4 July 2014

New vacancies up 25% in first half of 2014, says reed.co.uk

The number of new job vacancies in the UK from January to June 2014 grew by more than 25% year-on-year, figures released by reed.co.uk show.
Your recruitment business 3 July 2014

CDE Global expansion to create 50 new jobs

Northern Ireland firm CDE Global, a designer and manufacturer of washing equipment for construction and mining industries based in Cookstown, has invested £3m, creating 50 new jobs.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 3 July 2014

Staffline acquires Softmist

National staffing organisation Staffline Group has completed the acquisition of Softmist, based in Leicester, which trades as ‘Skillspoint’.
Your recruitment business 2 July 2014

Productivity growth remains flat

Labour productivity in the UK changed little during the first quarter of this year, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics.
Your recruitment business 1 July 2014

US DoL makes $1.6m grant available to assist workers affected by Heinz layoffs

The US Department of Labor (DoL) has made available a $1.6m (£0.9m) National Emergency Grant to provide re-employment services to around 330 workers affected by the closure of the HJ Heinz facility, located in Pocatello, Idaho.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 1 July 2014

SouthWestern creates 260 new jobs, while NuVasive adds 30

SouthWestern, a company that provides business process outsourcing services in Ireland, the UK and the rest of Europe, is creating 260 jobs.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 30 June 2014

Third office for shop fitting recruiter 2B Interface

A specialist recruiter for manufacturing and shop fitting, 2B Interface, is opening an office in Northampton.
Your recruitment business 27 June 2014

Two firms give jobs boost for Belfast

New jobs are being created across Belfast, thanks to help from investment company Invest Northern Ireland (NI).
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 27 June 2014
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