An expanding firm of chartered surveyors in Hampshire has launched a recruitment drive to meet rising demand for its services.
Fast-growing McAndrew Martin is bolstering its ranks with up to 10 new staff – including young apprentices – after a record-breaking year.
The company is investing in additional manpower as the economy and its business fortunes continue to improve in 2015.
As well as apprentices, the 24-strong company also needs chartered surveyors and property asset data taggers to carry out inventories at properties and provide property services support.
Director Ian Lee said: “After a record 2014, bringing new blood into the business will help us maintain our momentum as we continue to expand.
“We have a strong record of developing young talent so it is particularly pleasing to be able to employ more apprentices.
“It is the perfect time for us to enter the next exciting phase of our growth as demand sharpens for our wide range of expert services and as the economy gets into its stride following the Great Recession.”
McAndrew Martin covers Hampshire, London and the South from its office at the Fairway Business Centre in Portsmouth.
The company recorded a 40% rise in demand for chartered surveys in 2014, its 25th anniversary year.
Its new apprentices will follow a building construction path with the opportunity for the right apprentice to move into chartered surveying.
They will come hot on the heels of accounting technician Kimberley Gaston, Bruce Scott and chartered surveyor Lee Sargeant who all started at the firm as trainees.
McAndrew Martin expanded in 2014 with takeovers of Fareham-based Brunel Design Group and Cosham-based Veness Chartered Surveyors.
As well as surveys, its services include architectural design, mechanical and electrical engineering, conservation, land and property development and design.
The new growth follows encouraging economic figures revealed in the recent Budget by Chancellor George Osborne.
They included upgraded growth forecasts for 2015 from 2.4% to 2.5% and from 2.2% to 2.3% for 2016.
