New jobs at engineering firm

A new engineering consultancy has expanded to 10 staff after securing a string of contracts.

Create Consulting Engineers was set up by Jonathan Cage, a former managing director of Millard Consulting, in December last year.

And since being established on Prince's Street, Norwich, the company has attracted a growing roster of clients ranging from a major supermarket to local councils in England and Scotland.

The company offers a range of technical services for engineering projects, including transportation, highway engineering, flood risk management, infrastructure planning, foul and surface water drainage and utilities and project management.

The firm now employs seven at its Norwich administrative base with a further three at its Ipswich and London offices, with more expected to be recruited in the coming months.

And despite the recent economic downturn and slow recovery Mr Cage said he remained confident for the future after securing a number of early contracts.

He said: “The economic downturn has had a big impact on our sector. Increasingly clients are looking for agile, flexible providers rather than the traditional monolithic engineering firms which predominated before.

“We bring an exciting, entrepreneurial and creative approach to engineering consultancy with imaginative and out-of-the-box thinking.

“This attitude has already won us clients in a number of sectors.”

Mr Cage left Millard early last year, almost a year before the Norwich-based company went into administration with the loss of 34 jobs in December 2009.

He worked as a sole trader before officially launching Create late last year, and has more than 20 years experience in engineering consultancy.

He is also a board director of Norfolk Chamber of Commerce and a member of Shaping Norfolk's Future transport forum.

He said the company had also invested in IT systems allowing it to operate online from anywhere in the world and was working towards achieving official environmental accreditations.