Swiftool
Swiftool Precision Engineering is a global vendor of safety-critical parts to the nuclear, petrochemical, and aerospace markets. Being based in Mansfield, an area with low educational attainment, has made it difficult to source and maintain the talent it needs.
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Challenges
Our solution
The result
- Swiftool reduced its recruitment expenditure for skilled machining roles by 30% and employed more than a dozen apprentices - 13% of its total workforce
- It has been able to play a role in building a better local skills pool, being an employer representative on the local college skills board, providing hundreds of hours of work experience to students each year, and working strategically with schools as a National Cornerstone Employer
- All of Swiftool's most recent recruits have come from feeder sites within five miles of its plant.
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