Executive

Gerard joined Meridian Business Support from a small, specialist white-collar construction firm, where he specialised in placing Estimators with main contractors and developers. Using traditional headhunting techniques, Gerard works with main contractors and developers of various sizes to place white-collar pre-construction, commercial and operations candidates from trainee to director level. Outside work, Gerard enjoys spending time with his young family, socialising and anything to do with football. Click here to contact our Croydon Branch.

Andy Staniforth | Recruitment Consultant Career Background: Prior to starting at Meridian I gained experience in a Candidate/Business development role, this gave me the basis to kick start a career in Recruitment within the South West. Why Recruitment? I enjoy the busy activity of recruitment ensuring that I provide both Clients and Candidates with the best service I can. About me: I am currently serving in the British Army Reserves, after spending some time in the regular Army I decided to leave and start a career in recruitment, whilst still pursuing a military career. I enjoy playing football, climbing and socialising. Let’s talk! If you have short-term or long-term temporary requirements in the office or on the shop floor I would love the opportunity to discuss how I can work with you. Click here to contact our Exeter branch. Email: astaniforth@meridianbs.co.uk | Mobile: 01392 423301

Broadways Stampings Limited consists of two companies, Broadways Stampings and Dyson Diecastings. Both companies are manufacturing businesses based in Bletchley. Dyson Diecastings manufactures parts utilising high pressure diecasting of both Aluminium and Zinc, all parts undergo CNC machining and other secondary operations post casting. Dyson Diecastings employ around 100 staff including temporary labour. Broadways Stampings manufacture pressed steel and aluminium parts using a range of presses from 40 to 800 ton. Many parts undergo secondary operations and assembly on robotised welding cells. Broadways employs close to 200 staff including temporary labour. Across both business we have between 60 and 80 temporary employees. Both businesses rely on temporary labour. Over the past years, we have experienced problems in retaining temporary staff and hence incur the not insignificant cost of continual training of new starters. We were approached by Meridian who suggested they could improve the situation. They attended our site several times and gave several very professional and compelling presentations. Not only did they suggest they could improve the situation but they explained how they planned to do it. We decided to test them by awarding them the Dyson Diecasting contract as this is far smaller than the Broadways Stampings contract and so was less of a risk. We need not have worried. During the first few months of the contract the staff retention improved dramatically and is now well within acceptable levels. Following a long period of evaluation of the Dyson Diecastings contract performance we decided to award Meridian the Broadways Stampings contract, again we have seen vast improvements in staff retention even at the usual times of the year where temporary labour are tempted away by short term higher rates. In a nutshell Meridian have delivered precisely what they suggested they could pre-contract awards. Meridian are a professional and proactive company who tailor their approach to recruitment dependent on the needs of the business. I would have no hesitation in recommending them. Matt Abrahams Group Finance Director .

With Brexit fast approaching on the 29th March 2019, we have created a web page to provide our EU candidates with up to date information on Brexit. The information provided is correct as at January 2019. Although there is still uncertainty around Brexit and what this means for EU citizens we will keep this page updated with any changes. Please click here to access the page.

We're looking to recruit Skilled Mechanical Fitters to support the increased workload in the maintenance, repair and overhaul teams at our prestigious aircraft engineering client based in Yeovil. Immediate starts available, ongoing work. Please click on the links below for more information and to apply: Mechanical Aircraft Fitters - Structural Mechanical Fitters - Aerospace Electrical Aircraft Fitters For more information call 01935 702361 or email francesca.woodsford@agustawestland.com

We would like to wish all our clients and candidates a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Our closing times across the holiday period can be found below: 24th December - Closed 25th December - Closed 26th December - Closed 27th December - Open 28th December - Open 29th December - Closed 30 December - Closed 31st December - Open 1st January - Closed 2nd January - Business as usual Please click here to find your nearest branch.

We are delighted to welcome Neil Duggins to Meridian! Neil joins our Sales Team as Senior Sales Executive. He brings with him a wealth of recruitment & sales experience having started his recruitment career in 2000 as a Consultant, he was promoted to Branch Manager in 2002 and then moved into sales in 2012. For the last two years Neil has been the Sales & Client Services Director for First Personnel Services where he was successful in winning some impressive clients in addition to supporting & developing their key accounts. Neil will be based in the Midlands but his role will have a national remit. To find out more about Neil visit his LinkedIn profile.

When we posted the first photo of the Meridian socks on holiday in Dalyan, Turkey, courtesy of Aaron in Credit Control, back in August, we had no idea how far they would travel! We hoped people would get involved and they certainly did! Who knew Meridian employees were such a bunch of jet-setters! We have had sightings from Berlin to Borneo, Thailand to Tenerife! We even had a worrying moment when we received a photo of a pair of Meridian socks without an owner in the Everglades! Thank you to everyone who got involved! This is by no means the end of the challenge, if you want a pair of socks to take on your travels, just get in touch with marketing@meridianbs.co.uk. Aaron Shaw, Turkey | Jeanette Barrowcliffe, Borneo | Fran Parkes, Singapore | Zara Byrne - Dubai | Adrian Saffery, Thailand | Julianne Leitch, Tenerife | Nuala Slim, Tenerife | Adam Temme, Cyprus | Maderia, Nigel and Sarah Dobinson | Tracey Clay, Florida, Haiti, Mexico | Derek Skelton, Marbella | Pauline Folllows, Berlin | June Anderson, Morrocco

We are delighted to be nominated for Back Office Support Team of the Year at this year's IRP awards, which are taking place on Thursday night, in London. We put our Talent and Organisational team forward for the award because of the excellent work they have done to improve company benefits, increase employee engagement and introducing training courses that have made a significant improvement on the company's bottom line. For ten years, the IRP Awards has been celebrating the best practice and professional excellence of their members. The night brings together hundreds of recruitment professionals to celebrate the best of our industry. Wish us luck - we'll let you know how we get on.

Don’t leave your job search until January like everyone else! Historically, November and December haven’t been the best times to start looking for a new job, however, the jobs marketing is changing and we have lots of opportunities available right now! One thing is for sure there is less competition this time of year, so why not start now and bag the job of your dreams, ready for a January start! Interested? Click here to search our jobs.