All Skills

IET bemoans lack of "suitably skilled" engineers
Added: 11 Aug 2011
London, – Almost half of organisations in the IT and engineering sectors are finding it increasingl…

From apprenticeship to senior role at Cressall
Added: 27 Jul 2011
Leicester, UK – Andrew Keith, an alumnus of Loughborough University, has been appointed as technica…

Foster Wheeler appoints Linde exec as new CEO
Added: 26 Jul 2011
Reading, UK – Foster Wheeler AG has appointed Kent Masters from Linde Group as chief executive offi…

Cogent projects attract government funding
Added: 22 Jul 2011
London – The UK governments’s department for business, innovation and skills (BIS) has agreed fundi…

Crotty leads Cogent
Added: 1 Jul 2011

Tom Crotty of INEOS has been confirmed as the next chairman of Cogent Sector Skills Council to succ…

Software-skills gap bites
Added: 1 Jul 2011
An industry-wide shortage of software-experienced engineers and over-extended equipment vendors are…

Process People & Skills Tracker - May 2011
Added: 29 Jun 2011
Alfa Laval has appointed Jerome Maguire as sales engineer for its complete product portfolio in Nor…

Control systems blamed for a third of downtime
Added: 7 Jun 2011
Houston, Texas – An industry-wide shortage of software-experienced engineers and over-extended equi…

Guide to the new Agency Workers Regulations
Added: 6 Jun 2011
Colchester, UK – Anyone working through a recruitment agency, who is under the direct supervision a…

RWE Dea wins family-friendly award
Added: 2 Jun 2011
Berlin – RWE Dea AG, Hamburg, was once again awarded the certificate for the “audit berufundfamilie…

Bayer names 'Factory of the Future' boss
Added: 20 May 2011
Leverkusen, Germany – Dr. Thomas Bieringer is to take over as managing director of the INVITE GmbH …

Scotland highlights carbon capture jobs potential
Added: 18 May 2011
Edinburgh, Scotland – Over 5,000 people could be employed on the construction and operation of thre…

Graduate interns benefit Guttridge
Added: 13 May 2011
Spalding, UK – Three graduate interns have provided Spalding-based Guttridge Ltd with extra resourc…

Process safety benchmarking is a first
Added: 11 May 2011
Dr Julian Hought of HFL Risk Services reveals the results of the chemical industry’s first ever pro…

Interns
Added: 1 May 2011
Well done to machinery maker Guttridge – and to the graduates involved – on the launch of its inter…

Cogent strikes chemicals 'gold' in Europe
Added: 28 Apr 2011
Brussels – The European Chemical Employers Group (ECEG) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy …

Babcock, Strathclyde University in two-way secondment deal
Added: 5 Apr 2011
Strathclyde, UK – The University of Strathclyde and Babcock International Group plc have signed a t…

Skills shortages could halt North Sea oil & gas boom
Added: 17 Mar 2011
London – Skills shortages could limit the ability of North Sea companies to exploit an anticipated …

Cogent targets new skills funding
Added: 17 Mar 2011
London –Cogent is highlight the availabilty of a new UK government funding package to support skill…

AMEC wins ECITB project management competition
Added: 10 Mar 2011
London – A team of graduates and trainees from AMEC’s Power & Process Europe(PPE) business has won …