Round 25 jobs at Costain are in danger because it considers the way forward for its £3.5m know-how centre in Somerset.
The corporate stated it was “repositioning its digital actions” to concentrate on development areas and would look to redeploy employees the place potential as a part of an funding programme that might see the creation of as much as 200 new jobs.
The centre in Worle, North Somerset, was meant to make use of 150 individuals when it opened in 2019, offering providers to shoppers together with options engineering, product-development manufacturing and upkeep, in addition to digital-systems integration.
The centre boasted a digital actuality suite permitting customers to digitally submerge themselves in ideas and take a look at designs whereas offering digital actuality connection throughout the Costain group.
Nevertheless, the corporate this week confirmed {that a} session was going down on the way forward for the positioning following a evaluate of its digital operations.
“Following an intensive market evaluate, we’re repositioning our digital actions to concentrate on areas that we anticipate to develop extra rapidly over the approaching years,” a spokesperson stated.
“Whereas a small variety of roles are in danger, we are going to look to redeploy individuals throughout the enterprise the place potential and, on account of the funding in precedence development areas, Costain will see a web enhance of roughly 175 jobs over the following 12 months.”
In an announcement accompanying the publication of its half-year outcomes final month, the corporate stated it had taken a strategic determination to exit its digital {hardware} enterprise and was repositioning its digital portfolio in the direction of the expansion of providers.
On the time, chief government Alex Vaughan advised Development Information that clients had been shopping for much less {hardware} and needed extra providers. “That’s from our digital consultancy, our digital and operational twins and situation-intelligence functionality – that piece has been rising,” he stated.
Costain is the most recent contractor to announce deliberate job cuts, following Bam, Lendlease, Keltbray, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine.
Costain was the largest recipient of Nationwide Highways spending in every of the previous two monetary years, receiving £522.4m in 2022/23.
Nevertheless, in Could, a job to improve limitations on the M62 was cancelled and, quickly afterwards, the agency exited the £1.3bn Northern Trans-Pennine challenge to improve the A66.