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Barnsley engineering firm launches recruitment drive following Yorkshire Water contract win

Winning a major utility contract has triggered Barnsley-based Clayton Penistone Group to launch a new recruitment drive to cope with new demand.

The engineering company specialises in the design, manufacture, installation and management of bespoke mechanical and electrical systems, mainly used in water treatment.

Aiming to increase its workforce by a fifth, the company wishes to appoint ten new starters within the next 12 months.

This follows its successful gain of a five year framework contract with Yorkshire Water, which it secured in collaboration with five other UK companies. The deal represents the biggest contract Claytons has ever signed, and is potentially worth £5m a year to the company.

It is accompanied by several other five-year asset management contracts with Anglian Water and United Utilities, plus other power and utility providers and estate owners such as NHS Trusts.

Claytons, as part of the Cema Clayton Consortium, and in collaboration with three other UK companies, secured the Yorkshire Water MEICA (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls and automation) contract, in September. This five-year framework deal could mean millions of pounds worth of work for all the companies involved across the UK, including work to bring 720 sewage pumping stations up to standard.

Claytons has already started advertising to fill its first clutch of new posts in engineering and administration.

Managing director Chris Bramall said: “We took a conscious decision to increase capacity and invest in growth just over five years ago. We knew we had the capability – the skills, the people and the land available here in Barnsley – and decided the time was right to push on and develop the potential of the business.”

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