Cordell Group bosses have decided to increase both its footprint and workforce
A Teesside engineering firm is expanding into a Portrack workshop and creating 30 new jobs to take on larger contracts.
Cordell Group, a multi-discipline engineering specialist, employs around 500 on Teesside and has seven sites across the North-east including Stockton, Middlesbrough and Thornaby.
The company has been growing its order book with specialist work - and with some “lucrative” potential contracts on the horizon, bosses have decided to increase both its footprint and workforce.
Its pipe and vessel fabrication workshops, based in Middlesbrough, will be relocated to the newly acquired premises and 30 new roles will be created “in the coming months” across all disciplines.
Towards the end of last year the company, which also has sites in Glasgow, Kent and Saudi Arabia, acquired Canadian training equipment specialists DarbyTech Training Equipment Inc.
Operations director Peter McIntyre, who is spearheading the site transfer, said: “Cordell Group continues to grow through its ability to build on its continued excellent client relationships, however we cannot be complacent and must ensure that our client expectations are met.
“We are therefore continually reviewing our practices to ensure that our products and services are cost effective, whilst not compromising quality and safety.
“This opportunity will provide the perfect platform for the group to expand the pipe and vessel fabrication workshop, with enhanced build space to service the increased size of pipe work contracts being undertaken by the group.”
The new site has “excellent” road links and four distinct bays covering more than 80,000sq ft to accommodate projects of varying size. Each bay also has “significant” overhead, for cranes of up to a 30 tonne capacity.
Managing director Rob McBride said: “Cordell Group is clearly making significant progress to build on the provision of engineering services across all of our market sectors of choice.
“We aim to deliver a full range of services across the life cycle of a project, tailored to our client’s requirements.
“This opportunity for Cordell to gain the competitive advantage by the streamlining of workshop operations and increasing efficiencies through logistic synergy cannot be ignored.
“We will embrace this revised strategy and continue to work hard to ensure that the needs of our clients are satisfied to ensure that our strong partnerships are maintained. This will undoubtedly benefit the business and the region as we continue to build on our previous success.”
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