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“Companies across Wales are expanding and reporting growth and this means job creation, which is great news if you are on the look out for that next move or you want to try something new. Firms are recruiting in a variety of sectors from manufacturing to business services and beyond. So, just who are the businesses on the look out for staff and what positions are available?
ADMIRAL
In January this year insurance giant Admiral confirmed it is taking on an additional 250 staff across its offices in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport. The firm, which employs around 5,000 people in Wales, is offering roles with a variety of responsibilities and salary grades with all new starters joining the Group’s employee share scheme, receiving up to £3,000 worth of free shares in the company each year.
Admiral’s Head of People Services, Ceri Assiratti, said: “We’re always looking for talented people to join the group and in the past we’ve been very successful in finding these people in South Wales.
“We’re very confident in finding more good quality people to meet our current recruitment needs.”
Alert Logic
US company Alert Logic, which is headquartered in Houston, is a leading provider of security as a service for the cloud. Its European HQ and Security Operations Centre (SOC) is based in the heart of Cardiff’s Enterprise Zone in the Welsh Government’s Capital Quarter offices, while its UK datacentre is in Newport.
The company expects to create 135 jobs in South Wales over the next three years with the potential for further growth in the future.
Princes Gate Spring Water
Princes Gate Spring Water is investing £5.5m in a major expansion project which will double staff numbers and more than triple production volumes . The Narberth based business is expanding its production facility, investing in a new state of the art bottling line capable of producing 37,000 bottles an hour – increasing annual production from approximately 85 million bottles to a potential 370 million – and sinking two new bore holes.
The expansion – which is essential to increase capacity to meet the growing demand for its organic spring water – is supported by £250,000 business finance from the Welsh Government .
Over the next three years it will create 25 new jobs bringing the total employed on site to more than 50.
PS Group
Cardiff -based telemarketing company PS Group has announced a major expansion with the creation of 80 new jobs and a move to new premises.
PS Group has hired the telemarketers to work in the company’s data correction department, as well as its existing product sales unit.
Founded by Wayne Phillips in 2010, the company provides various channels to directly target customers, selling third party products, as well as its own.
GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare has launched a multi-million pound innovation village in Cardiff. The firm, which already employs 430 people at its 30 acre site close to Junction 32 of the M4, was a key exhibitor at the BioWales conference at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay in March. The innovation village will create 25 jobs initially and have room for between eight to 10 businesses.
It is understood the jobs will be in research and development, technology, innovation, diagnostics, cellular technology and research technology.
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