Alstom seeks to hire workers from Rolls-Royce's Ansty site

Alstom is looking to recruit more than 50 people for its Rugby site, which, in addition to its steam turbine engineering and project management businesses, hosts a research and development facility working on technology for the energy sector. In addition, the company has a turbine service factory that works on worldwide power station projects.

Iain Rutherford, Rugby-based unit managing director for technology, said: ‘As a company, Alstom currently has the openings for engineers, scientists and project managers, and I’m sure that many people working in Ansty would have transferrable skills that we could put to good use.

‘Despite the global recession, Alstom continues to win new orders, including a contract to retrofit six steam turbines for a South African power station to help make it more efficient and so reduce its CO₂ emissions, together with orders from China and Hong Kong.

‘We also like to think that we offer people real development and career opportunities, which I’m sure would make us extremely appealing to many of the people at Rolls-Royce who might be worrying about their long-term future.