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Global engineering, design and construction group URS is to recruit about 430 new staff in 2014. Additionally, the company stated that it will recruit 120 graduates and apprentices.
The company is responsible for some of the UK's highest profile engineering projects such as HS2, crossrail and the Emirates cable car. The company indicated that government investment in infrastructure projects has boosted the sector and that more is needed to encourage young people into engineering careers.
Sources
5 March 2014: The Telegraph
Citation
Eurofound (2014), URS, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76703, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76703.