Type
Business expansion
Country
United Kingdom
Region
Scotland; North Eastern Scotland; Aberdeen City
Location of affected unit(s)
Aberdeen
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture For Transport Equipment
Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment
30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment

100 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
2 February 2007
Employment effect (start)
2 February 2007
Foreseen end date
1 May 2007

Description

Marine and engineering services firm C and M Group has announced that it will create 100 jobs in Aberdeen. The firm's recruitment drive will be over the next three months. The new job openings are for marine crew, electricians, estimators, quality control managers and project supervisors. An additional 140 jobs will also be created at the firm's American arm. The move follows a management-led buy-out and restructuring. C and M, which aims to become a major global engineering company, has invested in a 14,000-tonne ice-breaker. Re-named the Ice Maiden, she is currently being converted into a multi-purpose support vessel capable of operating anywhere in the world. More than 60 of the new jobs will be for experienced marine crew for the Ice Maiden. C and M currently employs about 80 people in the UK and 60 in America. David Kellas, C and M's operations director, admitted that their recruitment drive would not be easy.

He said: 'With an extremely tight labour market, we know that finding experienced people will be very challenging.'


Sources

  • 2 February 2007: BBC News

Citation

Eurofound (2007), C and M Group, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64898, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64898.