Industry Sectors
Greater Lincolnshire's innovative Manufacturing and Engineering Sector employs over 48,000 people.
Across the region, there are over 2350 businesses operating in the exciting manufacturing and engineering industry, including power engineering, chemical, steel manufacturing and motorsport engineering. With many of these exporting around the globe; Greater Lincolnshire’s creations are being used across the world. Within this innovate industry, businesses are always looking for passionate and creative people to add to the region’s manufacturing and engineering heritage.
Manufacturing & Engineering
Manufacturing and engineering is all about creation – and that’s exactly what Greater Lincolnshire wants to do.
Across the region, there are over 2350 businesses operating in the exciting manufacturing and engineering industry, including power engineering, chemical, steel manufacturing and motorsport engineering. With many of these exporting around the globe; Greater Lincolnshire’s creations are being used across the world. Within this innovate industry, businesses are always looking for passionate and creative people to add to the region’s manufacturing and engineering heritage. Greater Lincolnshire evidences a strong manufacturing and engineering heritage and is very proud of this outstanding position as a nationally important centre for manufacturing. Tracing a long tradition of manufacturing excellence underpinned by a highly skilled and loyal workforce. Greater Lincolnshire is home to world-class companies including Siemens. The sector delivers a direct economic value to the Greater Lincolnshire economy of £2.1 billion per year and employs approximately 41,000 people with growth taking place across several key areas, including engineering, chemicals, metals and polymers. Confidence in the area's manufacturing industry has been boosted by gas turbine giant Siemens, who have invested millions into a new development at Teal Park, near Lincoln, after finding it the best option UK wide for expansion. The metals and engineering sector in North Lincolnshire boasts more than 90 businesses and almost 6,000 employees. Greater Grimsby is at the centre of a major concentration of process industries, which in the wider Humber region employs around 15,000 people in 20 120 companies. The process industries are incredibly diverse and include petrochemicals; commodity and speciality chemicals; composite materials; pigments and paints; and pharmaceuticals. In the last ten years, the Humber Chemical Focus has grown into one of the UK's leading regional chemical initiatives, with more than 100 members. The HCF works with companies and organisations within the region to create and support industry. While the number of the people employed in this sector has declined over the last 10 years nationally, Greater Lincolnshire has fared better, losing approximately a quarter of its employment compared to a third across Great Britain. The value of the sector has continued to rise over this time, and is set to do so in the future. We continue to excel in the manufacturing sector, offering a fresh skills pool to local employers through the first purpose-built School of Engineering for 20 years at the University of Lincoln.
Employers in Manufacturing & Engineering
British Steel
The new British Steel was created in 2016 when Greybull Capital bought the Long Products Europe business of Tata Steel. It’s a new start for them and is based on 150 years of heritage. British Steel is working closely with customers and suppliers to create an agile, effective and competitive supply chain.
British Steel
British Steel, based in Scunthorpe, have a range of high quality steel products that go into a number of markets around the world. They also have a network of metal centres and service centres across the UK and Ireland enabling them to serve their customers quicker and more efficiently.
They work in 4 main markets:
- Rail - Rail products and services for high speed, heavy duty, mixed traffic, metro and tramway networks
- Sections - Sections for the construction industry. CPR-compliant for current structural design and practice
- Special Profiles - Special Profiles for earth moving, forklift, construction, shipbuilding and mining markets.
- Wire Rod - Wire rod for the automotive, construction, engineering and consumer goods markets.
British Steel's brand promise
We want to work with our customers to fully know, understand and meet their needs.
We want to build loyalty in the British Steel brand by being our customers’ first choice supplier, the one they trust, every time.
We will do this by:
- Being agile and easy to do business with – this means being responsive, adaptable, competitive and proactive
- Strengthening existing relationships and creating new relationships – this means being trustworthy, friendly and engaging
- Working together to drive improvements – with enthusiasm and effectiveness that accelerates product and service development
- Doing what we say we will do – this means being reliable and honest
With many recent changes across our business, now is a time to reinvigorate our relationships. We will show everyone that we mean business, that we are here to stay and that by working with our company – British Steel – we can all be sure of a stronger future.
Minster Group
Based in Dunholme, Minster Group has grown to become a major supplier to the Ministry of Defence, Local Authority, Major Builders and Local suppliers. We are now one of the UK's leading independent asphalt and tarmac road surfacing contractors.
Minster Group
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.
Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire
Our staff members believe that there is a sense of belonging when working at the ENL UTC and due to the unique learning environment it allows them to praise and acknowledge students successes and progression.
Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire
Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, is a non-selective, publicly funded school for 13-19 year olds that aims to deliver well-rounded students into the engineering and technology industries through a specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education. With a focus on connecting education to industry, students receive an innovative concept of learning that combines technical, practical and academic learning. By doing so, it provides students with something more than the traditional GCSE and A Level curriculum. Exposing individuals to real-industry projects and industry experts, enables them to progress into their dream careers by gaining the skills, experience, knowledge, qualifications and confidence required by todays employers.
Opened in September 2015, the ENL UTC £12m campus is set in the heart of Scunthorpe town centre on Carlton Street, close to both bus and train stations. The campus contains some of the most up-to-date, cutting edge engineering, scientific and computer facilities in the country that provide engaging workshop spaces to learn alongside of the theoretical work.
There are currently around 50 UTCs throughout England that are spearheading a new approach to teaching engineering and technical skills to schoolchildren around the UK. Each UTC has been established where employers need them most and where there are pronounced skill gaps. This is what makes the ENL UTC so unique within the region, allowing the next generation of workers to get much sought after skill sets to make that rapid transition into the workplace.
As the ENL UTC is currently in it's third year, the school is continuing to grow. At the moment we employ around 28 members of staff including both teaching and support staff.
Every staff member employed at the school is passionate about not only their job role but also the schools vision and ethos. Staff do not raise their voices, the school does not have an isolation system and we respect the students as much as we would like them to respect us. The ENL UTC is very focused on the individuals and building those relationships.
From a recent staff survey it stated that 95% agreed or strongly agreed that the UTC was a great place to work, 100% agreed that the UTC has a great vision and that the staff force is well led, and the average staff morale was 8.73 out of 10.
Our staff members believe that there is a sense of belonging when working at the ENL UTC and due to the unique learning environment it allows them to praise and acknowledge students successes and progression.
My job role is as the ENL UTC Marketing and Student Recruitment Officer, and I love my job because every day is different. Not only do I plan strategy for the year, manage all digital platforms and arrange literature, I also get to work closely with students and industry partners to create a sense of engagement throughout the community. Every day I am involved in an activity, event, workshop etc. that engages the students to be more involved in promoting their school.
Recently we have had permission to open the school up to a year 9, meaning that the ENL UTC is one of the first UTCs in the country to be able to do this.
We are continuously progressing and opening up the campus to new, relevant industry machinery for the curriculum as well as engaging more with the local community, showcasing our student talents.
Barkston Refinishing
A traditional body shop in Grantham, passionate about cars and apprenticeships.
Barkston Refinishing
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
Siemens
Siemens might be a global employer but it firmly believes in the value of 'growing its own' talent from local communities.
Siemens
Siemens might be a global employer but it firmly believes in the value of 'growing its own' talent from local communities. Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd is based in Lincoln.
Apprenticeships are a vital tool in this process. As part of National Apprenticeship week, which runs from March 6 to March 10, Lincolnshire Live spoke to enthusiastic apprentices about their time at the firm's Lincoln Main Works site and also spoke to a former apprentice who has now made his way to the top of the career.
Siemens was established in the United Kingdom 169 years ago and now employs 12,972 people in the UK. Last year’s revenues were £4.4 billion. As a leading global engineering and technology services company, Siemens provides innovative solutions to help tackle the world’s major challenges, across the key sectors of energy, industry, infrastructure & cities and healthcare. Siemens has offices and factories throughout the UK, with its headquarters in Frimley, Surrey. The company’s global headquarters is in Munich, Germany.
Bosch
If you have a passion for motor vehicles and the drive to perform, a career supported by Bosch could put you on the road to success.
Bosch
What we offer our associates
For more than 130 years, we have offered our associates around the world the opportunity to shape the future with a leading global provider of technology and services. Beneficial innovations that improve the quality of people’s lives, and save resources, drive our work. We encourage our associates to be individuals and see diversity as an asset. Our company enables its associates to strike a healthy balance between professional and personal aims, as we see this as a decisive means of promoting creativity and job satisfaction. This balance also shapes the foundation of our associates’ outstanding performance. Lifelong learning and a regular change of perspective are firmly anchored in our leadership culture. Our areas of activity are every bit as diverse as our locations around the world.
It pays to work at Bosch
Lay the perfect foundation for the future: With our preventive healthcare program, the company pension scheme, and other benefits.
With the company pension scheme we lay a perfect foundation for your future
Our compensation for your work is not just good, it’s equitable. Pay structures at Bosch are fair and transparent. After all, we want to build a long-term, successful working relationship with you. We also add attractive benefits to your basic salary, such as our company pension scheme. And the more you put into your work, the more you'll get out of it — as part of our work bonus scheme.
The Bosch benefit plan offers a simple, profitable system for company retirement benefits. To help you accumulate retirement savings, we offer company contributions. Additionally, you can contribute directly from your salary. The contributions are invested in stocks and interest-bearing securities. We are careful to provide you with a secure and sustainable investment strategy. Your savings will be available as additional income once you retire.
But there are more ways we appreciate your work and encourage you to contribute your ideas. We have thus introduced our company suggestion system: Suggestions that deliver results, such as optimised processes or improved product quality, are rewarded with bonuses of up to 150,000 euros. The success we have demonstrated in gathering associates' ideas and putting them into practice received accolades from the Deutsches Institut für Betriebswirtschaft (dib) in 2008.
Make your mark
Give your job a meaning. With solutions “Invented for life.”
At Bosch, we are committed to developing innovative, beneficial, and fascinating products and services. Enhance with us the quality of life worldwide, and leave a lasting mark on the world.
Discover new directions
Your way might change — we will stay by your side.
We welcome change and encourage you to switch between positions and working fields. Tell us about your goals, and let us put them into practice.
Walk the talk
Wherever you are — our team spirit is with you.
Robert Bosch founded our company over 130 years ago, and we still live by the values he embodied today. Discover a culture that is based on respect and responsibility, and carry our values further.
Balance your life
Make your job match your lifestyle. We provide you with individual support.
You know that there is more to life than just work. That’s why we actively support you in finding a healthy balance between your private and professional lives. Join us, and let life happen.
Pay it forward
We love our business and our environment. Let's save them both for future generations.
At the core of our DNA is social responsibility. That's why, with us, you can achieve business success and support social and environmental projects at the same time.
Be yourself
Your diversity makes us special. Enrich us with your own unique personality.
Everyone is different. We appreciate your individuality and believe that diversity is an asset for our company. Show us your way of thinking, and let us drive great innovations together.
Shape tomorrow’s world
The future offers many opportunities. Be among the first to take advantage of them.
With regard to global megatrends and new technical capabilities, we create solutions for a connected life. And there is much more potential for us to tap. Create your vision of the future with us, and witness how your ideas shape tomorrow's world.
Find your place
You know how you can work best. We offer you the conditions needed.
One global company, many ways of working: From start-ups to established corporate structures, we offer a wide range of working environments. Join in, and find the right place for you.
NMB Minebea
At NMB Minebea UK, we are a world leader in the design and manufacture of bearing technologies. Wherever precision, speed and reliability are essential; we deliver exceptional solutions which improve the productivity and efficiency of our customer’s application or product.
NMB Minebea
At NMB Minebea UK based in Lincoln, we are a world leader in the design and manufacture of bearing technologies. Wherever precision, speed and reliability are essential; we deliver exceptional solutions which improve the productivity and efficiency of our customer’s application or product.
We are passionate about our product and believe that the key is to understand the challenges our customer’s face, by doing this we then connect our products, people and expertise to deliver exceptional service and solutions. We aim to exceed the expectations of our customers through the production of world-class precision-engineered product.
Starglaze Windows and Conservatories Ltd
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.
Starglaze Windows and Conservatories Ltd
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!
SPARK Lincoln
Let our story spark your imagination as it has inspired thousands of people to marvel at our engineering achievements.
SPARK Lincoln
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A 3-day celebration of Lincolnshire's Engineering Past, Present & Future
SPARK! Engineering Festival is back for 2019 and promises to be even bigger and better than in previous years.
For the first time, SPARK! 2019 will incorporate Civil Engineering to celebrate and showcase the marvellous achievements of this discipline. This ties in nicely with the construction of Lincoln’s new Eastern Bypass and the many challenges it presents. The magnificent event setting of Lincoln Cathedral is a Civil Engineering masterpiece in its own right.
Engineering...
the application of scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical, societal and commercial problems to help imrpove people's lives and advance humanity.
Throughout history, engineering has been an integral part of life in Lincoln and the the surrounding area. From the time the Romans built a fortress overlooking the Witham, the creation of the Fossdyke Canal, through the construction of the castle and catherdrl, to the industrial revolution and the "founding fathers" of Lincoln's proud engineering tradition- Nathaniel Clayton, Joseph Shuttleworth, William Foster, Joseph Ruston and Robert Robey- and to today's leading engineering communicty, Lincoln's engineers have applied their knowledge and ingenuity to shape the world.
As you follow our journey through history to the present day, you will see how our local engineering community has developed and continues to flourish. We have world leading people and world beating engineering businesses, teachers, researches and technologisits who are applying their knowledge and skills to innovate, design, create and supply the best engineering people, services and products worldwide.
Let our story spark your imagination as it has insoired thousands of people to amrvel at our engineering acheivements and ingenuity of our local heroes and how they have changed our lives.
-Doctor Paul Taylor
