23-04-2010

Cleshar Contract Services is sponsoring the Newcomer/Graduate of the Year at this year’s RailStaff Awards 2010.

Cleshar is a UK-based contractor operating in facilities management, maintenance, construction support and capital works with particular expertise where safety critical resources are required. Last year CCS Group had a turnover in excess of £40 million. Based in North West London and with a dedicated national rail office in Lenham, Kent, Cleshar is constantly on the look out for talented people to join the team. In the rail industry Cleshar’s activities span the national rail network, Docklands Light Railway and the London Underground. Cleshar via its in house training company, Infrastructure Training Services Ltd provides ongoing support to its own and external contractors' activities in respect of safety and skills training. The company has been trading since 1993.

Says Tom O’Connor, managing director of Rail Media, which organises the RailStaff Awards, ‘We are very pleased to welcome Cleshar to this year’s RailStaff Awards. As a skilled–people business doing so much to help people build strong careers in railways it is very fitting that Cleshar should be backing the Newcomer/Graduate of the Year at this year’s RailStaff Awards.’

Says Michael Horgan, managing director, Cleshar Contract Services, ‘We are delighted to be taking part in the RailStaff Awards and to be sponsoring the  Newcomer/Graduate of the Year at a time when we need more school leavers, graduates and newcomers to keep pace with demand.’

The RailStaff Awards will be held on 23rd October 2010 at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham.