CLARK Contracts is on course to expand its workforce by more than 25 per cent this year.
The company expects to create around 60 jobs across its Paisley and Edinburgh bases, taking the total headcount to 260.
It said it was increasing staffing levels having won a bumper £26 million of business in the first six months of this year. Contract values are said to have ranged from £100,000 to £4.7m.
More than 30 new tradespeople have already been taken into the company’s maintenance division.
They include joiners, plumbers, plasterers, electricians, roofers and decorators.
Gordon Cunningham, managing director, said jobs as maintenance co-ordinators, surveyors and administrators had also been created in that division.
The expansion in maintenance comes after winning mandates from two large UK insurers along with work from Stirling Council, City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Grampian.
In the small works, construction and fit out arm Clark Contracts, which was founded in 1978, has added estimators, quantity surveyors and site managers and is recruiting to fill more vacancies.
It said the jobs created this year also included the eight apprentices who are working across various trades.
Mr Cunningham said: “There is no doubt that the market remains extremely competitive and it is against this background that we are so pleased to have secured a wide range of significant contract wins during the first half of 2015.
“In addition to recruiting the 60 new staff across all disciplines in the business, we are continuing to invest in our existing staff through our academy and we are convinced that it is this investment in developing the skills and capabilities of our workforce that is helping us to win record levels of new business.”
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