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Bringing Aycliffe Business Park Together | 9 SCH Site Services was formed in 2005 and has grown from a crane hire business to a company specialising in complex builds and working in high risk sectors such as petrochemical and energy. SCH SITE SERVICES DH Recruitment managing director Lisa Fleming with new business development manager Rob Binnie. HILTI ON HAND With a large workshop and an impressive portfolio of highprofile projects, robust and high performing tools are essential. Tools like angle grinders and impact wrenches are commonplace in the steel fabrication and erection process, and ensuring these tools remain productive is essential AMBITIOUS RECRUITMENT AGENCY AIMS TO TACKLE ENGINEERING SKILLS GAP to minimising downtime and keeping the business profitable. “We look not just for productivity and health and safety in our tools, but also reliability and costeffectiveness across the lifecycle too, and we’re delighted with our Hilti tools.” Gary Finley, SCH Site Services managing director SCH Site Services | Beaumont Way | Aycliffe Business Park | DL5 6SN T: 01325 327149 W: www.schsiteservices.co.uk By Martin Walker An ambitious new recruitment agency has been set-up specifically to tackle the skills shortages in engineering and manufacturing. County Durham entrepreneur Lisa Fleming has launched DH Recruitment, which is part of the successful Driver Hire Darlington franchise she started in 2011. She has appointed experienced engineering recruitment expert Rob Binnie as business development manager, who has joined her Newton Aycliffe-based team from global firm Intertek, a FTSE 100-listed business which works with clients around the world in auditing, inspection, sourcing, training and testing. Lisa has set an ambitious target of growing her franchise, which is already on target to hit £500,000 in annual turnover at the end of July, by a further 50%, and create up to three new posts within the recruitment division. Rob, a former HGV mechanic and toolmaker originally from London, has spent the last 25 years specialising in technical recruitment for Intertek. He was based at the firm’s Hamilton office in Scotland, managing its recruitment division which specialised in the oil and gas sector. And he says his knowledge of the industry gives him an edge. “It gives me a big advantage when I’m talking to businesses becaus