Companies compete for engineering staff

NES is facing increasing pressure to supply its clients with suitably qualified engineers.

Highly skilled and experienced engineering personnel throughout the UK are increasingly viewed as "gold dust" due to the skills shortage within the industry, according to NES.

The company, which places white-collar engineering personnel through its fifteen international locations, is experiencing exceptional demand following project approvals across the UK.

Its London division in particular, is facing increasing pressure to supply its clients with suitably qualified engineers.

Preparations for the 2012 Olympics, the continued buoyancy of the oil and gas industry and an 11% increase in construction orders in the past year have contributed significantly to such demand.

"We are able to absorb such demand through our ability to source candidates from across the globe, where our Foreign National Candidate service, assisting with visa and work permit applications, has been hugely successful", says Simon Gerrard, director at NES, London.

"Expansion of our recruitment workforce, including the recent appointment of Josh Freeth and Alastair Stewart to our mechanical and piping and building services teams, is another way in which we have been able to satisfy demand from our clients", Simon concludes.

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