The firm has appointed 50 craft apprentices and eight technical engineering trainee/graduate positions across the group totalling 58, which is its biggest intake to date.

Emtec Building Services regional director Iain Hetherington said: “Investing, developing and training the future talent in our industry is something that we at Emtec are extremely passionate about. We believe our people are our greatest asset and as such are delighted to offer the opportunity for growth and development amongst our workforce with a number of our site team having progressed into trainee technical engineering/management positions this year.”

The intake brings Emtec’s total number of employees in apprentice and trainee positions to 121.