North West & North Employment Bulletin August 2011 Welcome to the Employment Bulletin On behalf of the Career Transition Partnership (CTP), welcome to the North West & Employment Bulletin. It will provide you with the latest jobs and business news from across the region. It will also highlight the latest vacancies on RightJob.

Here is a selection of the latest vacancies on RightJob in the region. Please log on to RightJob to view the full details of any of these jobs. There is a Quick job search box on the home page, which allows you to search for vacancies using the unique Job ID number shown.

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Closing Starting Job Title Location Salary Job ID Date Date £20,000- Workshop Supervisor St Helens 26/08/11 27/08/11 34198677679 £23,000

Operations Manager St Helens £50,000 26/08/11 06/09/11 34198678823

Home Based Inspection £36,000- Manchester 26/08/11 05/09/11 34198679237 Engineer £40,000

£15,000- Stores Person Queensferry 26/08/11 06/09/11 34198679871 £18,000

Class 1 Driver C+E Warrington £21,000 29/08/11 29/08/11 34198671245

£20,000- Crane Engineer Oldham 29/08/11 29/08/11 34198678218 £25,000

Commando Joes' Fun £12,000- Manchester 31/08/11 05/09/11 34198672462 and Fitness £50,000

Trainee Medical Sales £28,000- Manchester 31/08/11 05/09/11 34198677428 Representative £33,000

£18,000- Forklift Engineer Crewe 31/08/11 31/08/11 34198678856 £22,000

Senior Technical £40,000- Manchester 31/08/11 31/08/11 34198679242 Account Manager £60,000

Telecom Exchange North West Depending on 06/09/11 07/09/11 34198678985 Engineers and UK wide experience

£20,000- HGV 1 Driver Speke 16/09/11 26/09/11 34198679150 £24,000 £18,774- Training Advisor/Tutor Queensferry 28/10/11 10/11/11 34198678041 £19,804

Penrith, £25,000- HR Manager 14/11/11 14/11/11 34198678159 Cumbria £45,000

Since the last Bulletin, we have had 91 new job requirements notified. Some of the industry sectors included:

Sector Jobs notified Administration, Secretarial 2 Aerospace/Aviation 5 Building, Construction 2 Engineering - Electrical 8 Engineering - Mechanical 9 Engineering Other 21 IT 2 Logistics 6 Management 5 Transport 9 Training/Teaching 2 Telecommunications 50

Companies Creating Jobs in the North West

Company Industry Sector Location Contact

Lancashire, Tel: 01772 707500 T Jolly Services Looking for skilled operatives in the Cumbria Unit 2 Wyder Court Limited building services sector (plumbing, (Carlisle area) Millennium City Park heating, gas, air con, electrical) and the West Bluebell Way

Midlands Preston PR2 5BW

Airbus UK Ltd Airbus UK Ltd's plant in Broughton, Broughton Airbus UK Ltd , will benefit from news Broughton that American Airlines is to buy 260 Chester new aircraft. American Airline will CH4 0DR announce its choice of engines to Phone: 01244 520444 power the aircraft at a later date. The contract has the potential to create a significant number of jobs for aircraft engineers

Santander UK The company is creating 250 new Bootle Telephone: 0870 607 6000 Plc call centre jobs in Bootle, as part of WebSite: www.santander.co.uk its initiative to stop the use of call

centres in India and invest in employment at the existing UK call centres. It will create 250 new jobs at the Bridle Road site in Bootle. In addition,

Gilling Dod 280 Potential New Jobs - Plans for a Conwy Gilling Dod Limited Limited £16m health centre in Abergele, The Cruck Barn Conwy have been recommended for Duxbury Park approval and will be considered at a Chorley planning meeting in July 2011. Lancashire PR7 4AT The development of the healthcare Email: centre is expected to create 173 [email protected] full-time and 112 part-time jobs. Web: www.gillingdod.com

Tesco Plc 175 Jobs Created - Store Opening Bolton, Tesco Plc In August 2011 Manchester New Tesco House Delamare Road Cheshunt Hertfordshire EN8 9SL Telephone: 01992 632222 Email: [email protected] web: www.tesco.com

Touch Solar Ltd The company has unveiled plans to Preston Clayton Hall create 100 new jobs in the city Harris Park installing free solar panels. 253 Garstang Road Preston It is offering to pay for the Lancashire installation of the technology – PR2 9AB which normally costs in the region Telephone: 0800 566 8166 of between £12,000 and £14,000 – Web: www.touchsolar.co.uk in exchange for taking a 26-year lease on the “air space” above people‟s roof of a property giving them cut-price electricity bills.

Employers in the Region

Company Sector Location Employees

Intrinsic Technology IT 14 The Parks, Newton Le Willows, 100 Haydock, Merseyside, WA12 0JQ 0870 880 2792

www.intrinsictechnology.co.uk

Manx Telecom Ltd Telecoms IOM Business Park, Douglas, Isle of 302 Man IM99 1HX 01624624624 www.manxtelecom.com

Recruitment: http://www.manxtelecom.com/compa ny/careers.aspx

Cruden Group Limited Building & Cruden Group Limited, Knutsford 335 Construction Road, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 3LA 01925 267314 www.crudengroup.co.uk

Calico Housing Centenary Court, Croft St, Burnley, 269 Association Lancashire, BB11 2ED 0800 1692407 www.calico.org.uk

Anwyl Construction Co. Ltd Building and Mona Terrace 100-250 Construction Rhyl, Clwyd LL18 4PH

15 Cymru Lifting Gear Ltd Lifting Unit 31 Abenbury Way equipment Wrexham Industrial Estate engineers Wrexham, Clwyd LL13 9UZ 01978 661439

Kelloggs Co Of Great Britian Manufacturing Bryn Lane 500-1000 Ltd Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham, Clwyd LL13 9UT 01978 661101 Careers

Regional Business News

A brief round-up of all the most important stories of regional business information for the North West and North Wales

Electrical Engineers.

The company has vacancies to work from their offices in St Helens, Lancashire and Frome, Somerset. They also have vacancies to work from home in the North East of England and the Central Belt of Scotland.

If you are an Electrical Engineer with the 17th edition certificates for inspection, testing and installation we would like to hear from you. Successful applicants will install and maintain standby power generators. With overtime you can expect to earn in excess of £30,000 per annum. Other benefits include 22 days holiday plus public holiday rising to 25 days after one year‟s service.

Apply via the CTP web site www.ctp.org.uk Job ID: 34198678748

HAULIER Abbey Logistics - The company, which employs 250 people from its Bootle base, recently rebranded from Abbey Road Tanks to Abbey Logistics Group to better reflect the range of services on offer and has set out a green agenda with all vehicles bearing the slogan “on the road to a greener future”. Although it is not recruiting drivers at the moment, the company does hold on file completed application forms, and will contact applicants as and when vacancies arise. Offices in the North West include Bootle, Chester and Manchester. You will find the online LGV application form here: http://www.abbeyroadtanks.com/go/vacancies/hgv-drivers/hgv-application-form

Unemployment in the Liverpool city region showed little change over the past month, according to the latest Governent figures. The number of people claiming jobseeker‟s allowance (JSA) in Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, Knowsley, Halton and St Helens fell last month from 53,352 to 53,118 – a drop of just 0.44%. And year-on-year the numbers claiming JLA increased by 5.6%.

Of the six city region boroughs, Knowsley showed the biggest fall, with the numbers claiming JSA dropping from 6,112 last month to 5,791. The figures also revealed a record number of people working part-time because they could not find a full-time job.

Knowsley Council claims its Knowsley Works initiative is almost certainly a major factor in the fall in unemployment. A spokeswoman for the council said: “Over the past few months, there have been a number of big recruitment drives for some of the borough‟s best known companies including Jaguar Land Rover, IAC, Decoma and CASA Care, which have seen more than 2,000 jobs created.

Outsourcing company Aegis is to open a base at Bruntwood's City Tower building in Manchester which will employ 600 people. Aegis global chief executive Aparup Sengupta said that the new contact centre will open later this year and will be part of a wider expansion which will see the firm employing some 3,000 people across Europe.

Aegis, which has more than 50,000 employees across 50 locations, is part of Indian conglomerate The Essar Group. The company offers a range of customer support services to major business sectors including banking, insurance, telecoms, hospitality and healthcare.

Personal care and household cleaning products manufacturer McBride is planning to close its site in Burnley in an efficiency drive that will cost hundreds of jobs.

The closure next March will affect 350 people - 300 full time workers and 50 temporary staff. Production at the site, on Windermere Avenue in the town, will be moved to other company facilities in the region including Middleton

Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service is planning to cut 103 jobs, saving £3.7m over three years. The service's budget is being reduced by £9m following a reduction in government funding.

It is hoped that the job cuts will be achieved through voluntary redundancies and retirements.

One hundred construction jobs and 80 permanent jobs will be created in a new uranium processing facility at Urenco‟s Capenhurst site in Chester. The Tails Management Facility (TFM) is scheduled to be completed and operational by 2015.

A Urenco spokesperson said the remainder of the construction contract will create 100 jobs, and once the facility opens in 2015, 80 further technical jobs will be based at Capenhurst

Cold storage logistics firm The Yearsley Group has been granted planning approval by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council for a £20m extension of its base at Harehills Distribution Park in Heywood.

The family-owned company said that a proposed new 174,377 sq ft storage and distribution centre will allow it to create a further 150 jobs in top of the 300 it already employs. Around 100 jobs will also be generated during the 10-month construction phase.

NORTH WALES: Focus on Flintshire: Flintshire is now the centre of the UK‟s aerospace industry, with one of only two centres in the world capable of building „big wings‟ for the civil aviation industry. It is the „engine‟ for the North Wales economy and with its neighbouring authority areas of Chester, Wrexham and , is part of one of the most buoyant economic sub regions in the UK.

Flintshire has developed as a major economic centre through the last twenty years. Almost uniquely in the UK, manufacturing remains at the heart of the local economy, providing 34% of all jobs (the figure for the UK is 13%). High value manufacturing is central here with aerospace, automotive components, specialty chemicals, food and paper and packaging, all well represented. The massive Airbus UK plant at Broughton now employs 7,000 people and is understood to be the largest manufacturing plant in the UK. Every wing for each one of the 3,000 Airbus aircraft produced since the 1970‟s, has been manufactured in Flintshire.

The UPM Kymenne paper plant at Shotton supplies 25% of the UK demand for newsprint and is located alongside the Toyota UK engine plant, which is a European Centre of Excellence. Other well known names locally include Kimberley Clark, Iceland, Kingspan, Ifor Williams Trailers, Corus and Warwick International.

Flintshire is also home to a growing IT and financial services sector, with moneysupermarket.com and Unilever‟s Global IT Service Centre both located at St Davids Park, Ewloe and DARA (Defence Avionics Repairs Agency) at Sealand.

Sustainable energy generation is becoming a more significant part of the local economy. At Port Of Mostyn, Flintshire has the most successful offshore wind servicing and support centre on the west coast of Britain. Windfarms as far away as the Solway Firth are supported from Mostyn and the largest offshore windfarm currently in Europe – Gwynt y Mor- will be developed and supported from Port of Mostyn.

Recent Job Placements

Here is a selection of Service leavers that found work through the CTP

Rank Job Title Town Salary I’ve found a Job as well! Cfn Stores Person Deeside £20,000

If you have found suitable Sgt Group Leader Liverpool Not disclosed employment, please send us Cleator Moor, the details by WO1 Principal Consultant £30,000 Cumbria Clicking here

Sgt Field Service Technician Manchester £25,000

Cpl Customer Service Technical Congleton Not disclosed Support Engineer

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