Industry Sectors

Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Employing 45,000 people worldwide with 7000 of those in the UK. Leonardo has six sites in the UK specialising Electronic Warfare, Radar, Helicopters, Cyber and Infra-Red Technology. Our Lincoln site is home to the Leonardo Academy where we train our customers on the latest technologies. Also at Lincoln we have a strong focus on Electronic Warfare Operational Support (EWOS), supporting both UK and overseas customers.

Being a STEM focused company, Leonardo employs a vast range of engineers including; software, systems, controls, hardware, manufacturing, electronics and cyber. Routes into employment with Leonardo are through apprenticeships, graduate schemes and industrial placements. 

In the UK Leonardo spends around £3.5 million on employee training and development annually, providing young people with the opportunity to gain qualifications through on-the job training, whilst simultaneously undertaking academic study. We are also one of the largest employers of engineering apprentices and graduates in the UK with our apprenticeship scheme rated 'Outstanding' by OFSTED. 

Leonardo is also the first aerospace company in the UK to be awarded the Investors in Young People Gold Accreditation award which reflects the company's commitment to supporting young peoples' educational development.

At Leonardo, you are working with some of the latest technology, so advanced that many people don't know about it. Through work with some of the UK’s most renowned universities including Edinburgh, Bristol and Liverpool, Leonardo is investing in future research to maintain the UK’s position as a leader in world-wide technological innovation.

Based in Spilsby, with an annual turnover of over £13 million, and engineering roots dating back to 1930, Tong Engineering has over 85 years of experience in manufacturing robust and reliable vegetable handling equipment, from single machines to full bespoke systems.
Now exporting world-class equipment to more than 50 countries worldwide, Tong offers a vegetable handling solution for a wide range of fruit and vegetables, from potatoes, onions and carrots, to parsnips, Brussel sprouts, swedes and more.

Tong Engineering clients include UK and overseas vegetable growers and farmers, vegetable fresh pack companies who process the world's vegetable supply from field to fork.

With Tong's range of custom-built equipment crossing mechanical, electronic, welding, fabrication, sheet metal, 3D CAD design and sales divisions, Tong offers those with a hands-on attitude, job and career opportunities across a wide range of disciplines. We are also proud to offer a strong apprenticeship scheme across many divisions and always like to hear from young individuals who are interested in a career in engineering and would like to learn the trade whilst working on the job.

We have a strong engineering heritage with a wide portfolio of job roles and are always looking for new talent to join our team. As a family-run business now in its fourth generation, Tong Engineering is extremely proud that our factory offers a place of work for local people, where it’s not just a job, it’s a passion to achieve the best.  With so many of our people dedicating their entire career, from apprenticeship to retirement, to be part of the Tong Engineering team, it’s a testament to the great culture the company is built upon, and the commitment we share. Tong Engineering treats its people as individuals, and the lifeblood of what we achieve together. The custom-built nature of the equipment Tong manufactures means no two projects are ever the same... resulting in a very interesting, challenging and varied working environment, with something different to achieve every day.

Metsä Wood provides premium-quality wood products for construction, industrial and distribution customers. We use 100% traceable wood from northern forests, a sustainable raw material of the finest quality. Our facilities are surrounded by these forests, which ensures a never-ending, reliable supply. Our primary products are Kerto® LVL (laminated veneer lumber), birch and spruce plywood, and Nordic premium timber.

Our sales in 2017 were EUR 0.5 billion, and we employ about 1,400 people. In the UK, we operate from four production and distribution sites: Boston (our UK Head Office), King's Lynn, Widnes and Grangemouth.

Metsä Wood is part of Metsä Group, which covers the whole wood value chain from sapling to product.

We have 7,640 talented people in a network of offices across the UK united by our values: collaboration, innovation, pride, and passion for our work. We engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Our Lincoln office forms part of the Lincolnshire Highways Alliance Design Consultancy, working alongside Lincolnshire County Council to develop a wide range of ongoing highways schemes including Lincoln Eastern Bypass, Grantham Southern Relief Road, Spalding Western Relief road and the proposed North Hykeham Relief Road.

WSP is proud to support development and growth throughout Lincolnshire; and are delighted to have the opportunity to share our work on the World of Work website.

Coveris is a leading European packaging company dedicated to providing innovative, sustainable solutions that protect, prolong and improve the products we use every day. As a manufacturer of multi-format paper and plastic products, our goal is to deliver optimal solutions that work to reduce overall environmental impact for both packaging and product.

With over 15 sites located throughout the UK, Coveris is responsible for the supply of high-performance labels, films, cardboard and hybrid packaging solutions to all leading retailers, manufacturers and brand owners. Having recently received the award for Flexible Plastic Pack of the Year at this year’s UK Packaging awards for its Freshlife® extended shelf-life avocado packs for Tesco and Waitrose, Coveris is leading the way for environmental packaging with its Pack Positive® sustainability strategy.

Coveris’ UK business is headquartered in Spalding with a further five manufacturing sites in Lincolnshire.

Minster Group was formed in 1999 and has grown to become a major supplier to the Ministry of Defence, local authority, major builders and local suppliers. Based in Lincoln, we work on multi-million pound infrastructure projects for many of the UK’s largest construction firms, as well as councils, central government, defence and aviation industry. We’re able to access all areas of the United Kingdom and are regularly asked to carry out works for the Ministry of Defence nationwide.

Initially offering specialist macadam applications  our continued growth and success has enabled Minster Group to offer a full construction package including site excavation, drainage, planing, block paving and surfacing. Our client list has grown to include Balfour Beatty, Carillion Amey, Gelder Group. Kier Group and TARMAC. 

Minster Group is owned and managed by Bruce Spencer-Knott who has over 25 years’ experience and a full working knowledge of the surfacing and construction industry. Bruce is often on site with the operatives, operating the machinery and helping deliver the service to the customer believing truly that excellence in delivery of the product is paramount. The company’s a proud member of The Institute of Asphalt Technology.

In 2016 we moved into our new 3-acre headquarters in Lincoln. Designed and built by local firm Stirlin Developments, the new, bigger site has allowed us to grow our team to 40 full-time employees and subcontractors. We can now also recycle more waste road material than ever – over 20,000 tonnes in just six months.

What do we do? Barkston Refinishing is a traditional bodyshop. That means that we are able to repair anything that is part of or attached to the vehicle body. This includes bonnets, roofs, glass, wings, doors, quarter panels, boot lids, sills, door mirrors you name it!

All productive staff have been apprentice trained and qualified to city & guilds / NVQ3.

Meet the team:

David (Company Director) has been working on cars since the age of 11 when he first got behind the steering wheel of a 1956 Morris Isis and learned to drive around the yard at the family home. Apprenticed in 1971 for five years and still learning 37 years later , proud to have worked with some real tradesmen. During that time the job has seen many changes mostly good, but sadly some things not so. Every day brings a new challenge, sometimes frustration, but always satisfaction and pride.

Andy has shadowed his brother Dave since he left school with a few variations of employers but shares the same love of the job. He joined Barkston Refinishing in May 1983 and celebrates 35 years with the company this year.

Paul son of David was born to spray. Loves to paint something different and wants to hear from you! Normally nobody sees the efforts of his labour as his job is to repair the car so that no one can tell its been done. Give him something different to do and make him happy!

Rosemarie married David in 1977 and still loves him. – what a woman! Rosemarie mans the office on a Friday and generally looks after the money. She is a pussycat most of the time but is feared in accounts departments and by debtors who dare to exceed our credit terms without telling her

Adam has loved classic cars every since he was 11 when he built a 1976 Triumph Spitfire 1500 from a bare shell upwards and every since he was ready to do anything with a car from learning how to paint it to how to do bodywork on it from welding to panel beating, Adam is our apprentice, joined in September 2016 and is making a good start to his career

Starting as a local supplier of aluminium windows in 1974, Starglaze is now one of the UK’s premier manufacturers of PVC, Aluminium and Sealed Units. With sales in excess of £19 million, we operate in the retail, trade and commercial sectors, supplying Kitemarked products to approved installers across the country.

From our humble beginnings, we now occupy a 6.5 acre site in the heart of Lincoln, with over 110,000ft² of manufacturing space – including a new £3.2m, 35,000ft² factory and office complex which houses a fully automated aluminium paint line. Despite challenging times, we continue to grow the business year on year. 

Having invested over £5.3m since 2014 in new manufacturing technologies, infra-structure, machinery, products and training we remain focused on our goal to make tomorrow better than today and will continue to develop our business to improve our products, services, customers and people.

We currently employ over 200 poeple at our Head Office, covering a wide ranges of skills from Customer Service Administrators, Data processors, Fabricators, Quality Technicians, Sales People, Installers, Engineers through to specialists in HR, Finance, Management, Logistics and Distribution.

We'd be the first to say that we don't always get it right, but we have been operating in Lincoln for over 40 years and are driven by a desire to make tomorrow better than today! 

We offer stable, long-term employment, our longest service member of the team has been with us since 1981! 

Our mission statement: working hard with valued and committed employees who share our Starglaze family values to enhance customers businesses by supplying a diverse range of high-quality home imporvement products and services that exceed industry standards. 

Our focus: to make tomorrow better than today! 

Our challange: to develop and maintain a highly motivated workforce capable of delivering continual improvements in products, services and standards.

When you consider that we operate in a highly competitive, fast-paced industry which is constantly trying to develop and innovate in order to deliver better products, in shorter lead times whilst maintaining world class service levels, you can understand why we need a highly motivated and capable team of people to help us grow!

The world around us is always changing.  New buildings are designed, new developments planned, old buildings redeveloped and modernised.  Modern machinery is required for transport options, to build our digital devices, and to create power for our digital world.  This world needs protecting, we must use energy wisely, avoid changing our environment, and remove all toxins and hazardous waste.

There are many businesses in the industries building the modern world.  The Rilmac Group of Companies for example, focussing on construction and steel engineering nationwide from our headquarters in Lincoln.

 Rilmac has grown from humble beginnings of three men and a van in 1957 to become a market leader of Asbestos Services, Fabrication, Insulation and Scaffolding.