Creating work for 50 people

Jun 12 2007 By The Journal

About 50 jobs are in the pipeline as The Engineering Business takes on new workshops at the former Amec yard on the Tyne.

The £16m turnover Northumberland company is to ploughing £1.2m in to the workshops.

The Engineering Business (TEB), which was established a decade ago, currently employs about 100 staff at its base in Riding Mill, Northumberland.

During the coming three years, TEB will be looking for 19 mechanical design engineers, 19 graduate design engineers and a further 12 senior engineers and managers.

It is leasing the 64,500sqft workshop - the size of a professional football pitch - from Amec. It is part of the huge Hadrian West site that was used for fitting out the Bonga oil production vessel in recent years.

The Engineering Business managing director Dr Tony Trapp said: "We set out to `change our game' two years ago, since when we have quadrupled turnover. These are exciting times with unprecedented growth in orders.

"The expansion into the centre of Tyneside's extensive offshore industry will allow us to construct and deliver larger and more complex systems."

TEB designs, builds and supplies engineering projects for industries including offshore oil and gas, submarine telecom, defence and offshore renewable energy. Last year, the company built and commissioned a 3,000-tonne capacity pipeline carousel and also designed a system for installing the world's biggest wind turbines in the North Sea off North-East Scotland.