Industrial/Manufacturing

NEW TO THE MARKET: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

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

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

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

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

Korea: more in work, but more are unemployed too

More South Koreans are in work than a year ago, but the unemployment rate is still rising, according to figures from the government-funded Korea Labor Institute in Seoul.

BRC to produce recommendations to eradicate human rights abuse

Recommendations on the steps the retail industry can take to help eradicate human rights abuses in their supply chains are to be produced by the British Retail Consortium (BRC), business minister Jenny Willott announced today (25 June).

Engineering stops being a dirty word for school leavers, CIPD conference hears

The difficulty of attracting young people to careers in manufacturing and engineering was described today at the CIPD talent management conference in London.

Taiwanese Apple manufacturers launch recruitment drive

Taiwanese electronic manufacturing company Pegatron, and Taiwan’s Foxconn, the main manufacturer of Apple products, are both launching a recruitment drive as Apple ramps up production ahead of the next iPhone launch.

Royal Navy contract secures 100 jobs

More than 100 engineering jobs have been protected in Portsmouth on the South coast, thanks to a £70m contract to support the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers.

Thompson Aero Seating creates 85 manufacturing jobs in Northern Ireland

Thompson Aero Seating, the designer and manufacturer of business class seats for commercial airlines, is creating 85 manufacturing jobs in Portadown after a £10m investment in the company.

Australia: Bundoora manufacturer to create 55 jobs

Fifty-five manufacturing jobs are to be created at Bundoora in Victoria, Australia, with funding set aside to help the town recover after carmaker Ford ceases local production.

US provides $1.3m re-employment help for TRW workers

The US Department of Labor (DoL) has made a $1.3m (£760k) grant available to assist around 200 workers affected by the closure of automotive systems provider TRW Integrated Chassis Systems in Saginaw, Michigan.

Jaguar Land Rover adds 250 jobs in Merseyside

Luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover is creating 250 jobs as part of a £200m investment plan for its Halewood factory in Merseyside.

Australia: Grants bring jobs after Ford for Campbellfield

Twenty-eight full-time manufacturing jobs are to be created in Cambellfield Victoria state, with grants from an investment fund set up after Ford Australia announced it will cease local production in 2016.

£48m missile contract protects Belfast jobs

About 60 jobs in advanced weapons system design and manufacturing in Belfast will be protected by a £48m contract to design and make a new guided missile for the Royal Navy’s attack helicopters.

US F1 team to create 250 jobs in UK

US businessman Gene Haas has said his plans to locate an American Formula One team in the UK will create up to 250 jobs in the country.

Executives Online re-structures its ranks

Specialist interim management and executive recruitment company, Executives Online, has made a number of operational changes.

Butler Ross appoints co-owner and director

Butler Ross, the specialist procurement and supply chain recruitment consultancy, has appointed Russell Soan as co-owner and director.

Search Consultancy looks beyond UK for language talent

Glasgow-based Search Consultancy has launched a UK and Europe-wide drive to source multilingual talent following a surge in demand across a number of sectors from contact centres to high technology.

Recovery in recruitment industry to become more ‘broadly based’, says expert

The strengthening of the UK as indicated by a raft of figures published today should enable the recovery in the recruitment industry to become more broadly based, according to an economist specialising in the recruitment sector.
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