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Recruitment may not be at the forefront of a typical evaluation of service industries in the offshore wind energy business. However, in such a young industry, finding ‘round pegs’ for ‘round’ employment ‘holes’ is of paramount importance, particularly in an area such as East Anglia, where suitable candidates are not always thick on the ground.
25TH ANNIVERSARY
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment, now with offices in Norwich, Bury St Edmunds and Lowestoft and celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2015, has been recruiting in the energy sector, more specifically in the oil & gas industries, in East Anglia for all of its existence. It is passionate about supporting the regional workforce and will recruit locally wherever there are suitable candidates. If there aren’t, it reaches out nationally or even internationally.
BASIC SKILLS SIMILARITIES There are many basic skills similarities between the offshore wind energy industry and other, more established producers of offshore energy. With the production of offshore wind energy in the North Sea burgeoning over the past few years, the company has built on its accumulated offshore expertise and expanded it to include this new and exciting industry.
Anyone working on the seabed, either laying cables onto or putting structures into the sea bed, needs subsea expertise regardless of the sector. Mirroring closely the growing trend in offshore renewable energy expansion, a recent internal recruitment drive at the company has seen the development of its vibrant subsea section.
WIDER REMIT However, recruitment support from Cooper Lomaz is not confined to technical and
engineering personnel. It also has highly successful Accountancy, Executive, IT, Sales and Marketing and Supply Chain departments. Recent assignments have seen the company enlist an IT Manager, a Commercial Accountant and a Management Accountant for three companies actively involved in the offshore wind industry.
COLLABORATION
Key to Cooper Lomaz’s success rate is its willingness to help businesses work with each other. The company has found the UK armed forces a rich vein of well- qualified personnel and the Oil, Gas and Renewables team works closely with each service to help men and women, often engineers who are coming to the end of their service life, to move into the energy industry. Many posts in this sector have been filled from these sources over the past few years.
A strong recruitment service not only benefits the companies that are constructing and running large developments; their success helps the local economy as a whole by encouraging the development of the industry supply chain.
It can also attract business to a region, especially when a company from overseas or another part of the UK is looking to establish an East Anglian presence. The development of offshore wind farms off the coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex is certainly starting to result in new businesses coming into the region to exploit the opportunities.
FOR ROUND HOLES A complete offshore energy recruitment support service
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