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NRL’s new office in the Wilton Centre, plans to provide a lasting solution to Teesside’s skills shortage. Politicians and business leaders have already spoken of the challenge of finding the right people to match the tens of thousands of new roles which will be created by the new Freeport and other major investments. That task is magnified by the number of skilled staff and ...

​Engineering recruitment and contracting specialist the NRL Group have announced the successful acquisition of CD Group.The Newcastle based business, which has traded as Contract Design (Northern) Limited for over three decades, is comprised of several business units providing services to prestigious industry clients including temporary and permanent recruitment, design engi...

​Colleagues in the North East were delighted to meet together with fellow NEPIC members in Stockton-on-Tees in October to talk about the exciting plans for the regional.NEPIC, the North East of England Process Industry Cluster, is a not-for-profit organisation who support local businesses across the process-chemical and engineer sector supply chains. The team at NEPIC host r...

Our Branch Manager Emma Lowden is part of our North East recruitment leadership team, and she’s offering a career changing opportunity to join NRL as our new Divisional Manager for the Teesside region – which includes exciting plans to launch a new recruitment branch in the heart of the region’s generation plans.NRL’s new Teesside branch will become our second North East off...

Colleagues in our North East recruitment team are looking forward to their first face to face networking event in 18 months, as they prepare to exhibit at NEPIC’s Meet the Members 2021 conference in October.The team joined the North East of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) earlier in the year, so the event on Wednesday 20th October provides the first opportunity to m...

​Our Sunderland Recruitment team have been busy supporting local charity Grace House in June, as part of the NRL Group’s year of giving back.Grace House provide short breaks for disabled children and their families, at their facilities in Southwick, Sunderland. The team have supported Grace House for several years now, with a range of fundraising activities including a Chris...

​Technical engineering recruiters NRL have joined in partnership with SSE Enterprise Contracting E&I to secure skilled local contractors to deliver the electrical installation work on the new NCL1 fulfilment centre.​The logistics space, which is currently in development on Follingsby Park in Gateshead, will require a range of specialist skilled personnel, including Elect...

​The global pandemic is having wide-reaching changes to our lives and workplaces. NRL’s Sunderland Branch Manager Emma Lowden takes a look at what this means for the UK workforce.The rise of the contingent workforce was widely predicted ahead of the events this year. What this year has forced is an acceleration of this trend, with businesses looking to make more strategic de...

​With exciting redevelopment plans for projects across the region, NRL’s North East branch were delighted to support the Tees Valley Business Summit – joining the list of exhibitors at the online networking event. The local recruitment team have been working with clients on projects in the region for over thirty years, most recently supporting a number of contractors on the ...

​In April 2020, our Sunderland Branch Director Gillian Gomersall celebrated 30 years at NRL – having led and developed our North East recruitment expertise for three decades. She reflects on what the recruitment industry was like when she started out in 1990.​The candidate database was logged in our head! When I started at NRL and asked how I could find candidates the Branch...