APPOINTMENTS
A round-up of the latest appointments on the Tees business scene ...
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Redcar-based social housing provider as a full-time painter and decorator .
Ellie-May has learned all the skills of the trade , using a mixture of onsite experience provided by Beyond Housing and additional training through the Education Training Collective at Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton Riverside Colleges .
AlphaGraphics A Teesside print and marketing agency has boosted staff numbers ahead of its busiest time of the year .
Stockton-based AlphaGraphics has taken on around 20 temporary staff including image editors and scanner and production operators , along with four permanent roles .
Two of the four permanent roles are office-based , with Christian Oxley hired as finance manager after the previous postholder retired , and Colin Moore hired as IT manager .
Two permanent production roles have also been filled , with Sam Thomson taken on as warehouse manager and Paul McNicholas as a large format printer .
Clive Owen accountancy A Darlington accountancy has expanded with 10 new starters .
Clive Owen – chartered accountants and business advisers with offices in Darlington , Durham and York – has grown its team from 102 in January to 112 .
Many of the recruits are graduates , AAT or ACCA trainees and qualified accountants , with roles created in audit and accounting , tax , IT , marketing , payroll , HR and administration .
The firm has faced the challenges of Covid head-on and invested in its staff , introducing several mental health and wellbeing initiatives to support the teams working remotely and during their phased return to the offices .
Debbie Jackson , Flexitallic Flexitallic UK , which operates in the design , manufacture and supply of industrial static sealing solutions , has appointed Debbie Jackson as key account manager .
Former branch manager Debbie , who has more than 18 years of experience in the sealing product sector , will work with some of the company ’ s largest clients in the North-East .
Based at Flexitallic ’ s Middlesbrough office , she will also develop new business opportunities in an area stretching from Teesside to the Scottish Borders .
Rachelle McLachlan , Red Button Marketing A student has been snapped up by a marketing firm even before leaving university .
Rachelle McLachlan , 23 , will work remotely for Red Button Marketing and Training while studying business and marketing management at the University of Chester .
Rachelle , from Darlington , is in the final year of a four-year course and decided
to go for it when the firm advertised for a graduate – even though it was a little premature , as she felt she had nothing to lose .
She has already proved she has a great work ethic , having tried her hand at everything from hairdressing and retail to event management from the age of 14 .
Her family runs an events and balloon company and after being made redundant she took over their social media – boosting engagement and business – which is how she discovered her love of helping businesses thrive .
Red Button Marketing and Training offers a range of training courses and , via its sister company , My Marketing Button , an online tool that empowers companies to implement an effective and wellstructured marketing plan .
Orangebox Training Solutions Just months after moving into its new Tranquility House headquarters at Hartlepool Marina , training provider Orangebox Training Solutions has created seven new roles .
Jill Tones is the new training quality manager , Niki Cotson is in quality compliance and Laura-May Lawson has been brought in as a learner engagement officer .
There will be appointments in admin and reception , while John Coates is the new facilities coordinator through the government ’ s Kickstart scheme to help people back into work .
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