20 March 2010

As of today (20/03/2010) FTE launch their new website. Their aim is to have a more interactive site with live vacancies and with better information for both clients and candidates. If you have any suggestions for this site please contact us via the contact screen.

Fast Temp Engineering Ltd have agreed to sponsor one of the local 11 a-side football team for the 2004/2005 season. Fast Temp Engineering Ltd will provide finance to help the club purchase a new kit as well as help them with the day to day costs of running an amateur football team. With our new partnership we will compete in the Tyne & Wear Business Houses League which incorporates teams from the local area.

Fast Temp Engineering Ltd have recently received a certificate of recognition for participation in the Work Experience Program. If you wish to be considered for this programme please contact us via the contact page.

Fast Temp Engineering lived up to its name to be crowned the fastest-growing company in the North East for 2008. The company was named as the fastest-growing medium business as well as winning the overall title for its phenomenal expansion over recent years. Colin Hewitt, head of commercial law at Ward Hadaway, said: “The award winners and indeed every business in this year's Fastest 50 have performed fantastically well in a challenging economic climate and we salute their achievements.”

The South Tyneside Gazette - Thursday 9th January 2003

A recruitment firm is making expansion plans of its own as it helps to place workers in jobs aroung Europe.

Fast Temp Engineering Ltd, based in the ECO Centre, Hebburn, hopes to treble its turnover to more than £2m in the next 12 months and is recruiting a team to help it cope with new business.

The firms core business is engineering recruitmentand even though it's the quiest time of the year, it is currently dealing with more than 40 clients.

Managing Director Steve Brennan, 42, from Jarrow, puts its success down to the fact he knows what to expect as both an employer and employee.

He said: "I took a gamble in leaving a well paid industry to venture into recruitment, a venture which is now starting to take shape three years later"

"We now have a hard working team here and we will building a strong reputation with our customers who are beating a path to our door"

"I've always said it's important to treat others as you expect to be treated yourself, and in no other industry is this more true than recruitment."

The economic development team at South Tyneside Council saw the potential in Fast Temp Engineering and helped the firm apply for an IT grant from South Tyneside Development Fund to buy a new computer system to help with administration.

Councillor Eddie McAtominey, lead member for corporate development, said: "We are pleased to support a local company that is helping to find quality work for skilled workers in the borough."

"We have a long history of engineering and shipbuliding on South Tyneside and the success of a firm like Fast Temp only goes to prove the industry looks to us for skilled work."

As well as the UK, Fast Temp currently has links with multi-national companies in Holland, France, Spain and Germany.

The Journal - Monday 13th January 2003

Recruitment agency Fast Temp Engineering Ltd is poised to treble it's turnover this year as it finds jobs for workers across the world.

The Hebburn based small business, which specialises in finding work in the engineering sector, says its turnover will rise to £2m over the next 12 months.

Fast Temp, which is based in the ECO Centre in Hebburn, has recently recruited two staff members and is hoping to take on a further two to help meet the demand.

The agency, which was setup three years ago, is currently dealing with more than 40 clients at a traditionally quiet time for the recruitment sector.

According to managing director Steve Brennan, the fact that he has been both a candidate and a client when he worked in engineering has helped him to get the business off the ground.

He said: "I took a gamble in leaving a well paid industry to venture into recruitment, a venture which is now starting to take shape three years later"

"We now have a hard working team here and we will building a strong reputation with our customers who are beating a path to our door"

The company was given an IT grant from the South Tyneside Development Fund, has installed a new computer system, helping it cut out administration work.

Councillor Eddie McAtominey, lead member for corporate development, said: "We are pleased to support a local company that is helping to find quality work for skilled workers in the borough."

"We have a long history of engineering and shipbuliding on South Tyneside and the success of a firm like Fast Temp only goes to prove the industry looks to us for skilled work."

Fast Temp currently has links with multi-national companies in Holland, France, Spain and Germany.

The Journal - 13th October 2008

FAST Temp Engineering lived up to its name to be crowned the fastest growing company in the North East for 2008.

The engineering, marine and offshore specialist staff supplier walked off with the title at the Ward Hadaway Fastest 50 Awards at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead on Friday.

The company, based at Hebburn in South Tyneside, was named as the fastest growing medium business as well as winning the overall title for its phenomenal expansion over recent years.

County Durham-based coal ash management, sales and marketing company Hargreaves Coal Combustion Products won the title for fastest growing small business while hi-tech installation, engineering and facility management company Merit Merrell Technology was named fastest growing large business.

Fast Temp managing director Steve Brennan, who runs the company with wife Sandra and staff Leanne Coxon and Elaine Smith, said: “I am just astounded and very pleased.

“It has been a bit of a rollercoaster year but we have grown the business and with the aircraft carrier work coming to the Tyne next year we hope to have an even better year.”

The winning companies were revealed before an audience of 150 business leaders at the Rooftop Restaurant at the Baltic.

Alastair MacColl, chief executive of Business & Enterprise North East, was the keynote speaker at the prestigious event.

Mr MacColl said: “The Fastest 50 has really grown into one of those key events in the business calendar.

“In some ways, celebrating success at the moment does seem to be a bit at odds with current circumstances, but I think there has never been a better time or a more crucial time to have an event like this and a celebration like this.

“I think it is vital as a region that we have a confidence and within the Fastest 50 we have 50 really inspirational reasons to be confident about the future of the North-East.”

Brian Aitken, editor of The Journal, introduced the awards, which reward profit-making privately-owned companies and organisations in the region which have shown the strongest sales growth over recent years.

He said: “The companies who have made it on to the list really have something to shout about.

“They make the kind of positive headlines which we at The Journal really like to see.”

The Fastest 50 is sponsored by leading North law firm Ward Hadaway and supported by The Journal.

Colin Hewitt, head of commercial law at Ward Hadaway, said: “The award winners and indeed every business in this year’s Fastest 50 have performed fantastically well in a challenging economic climate and we salute their achievements.

“They are all shining examples of success which shows that we in the North-East can compete not just on a national level but a global one too.”