Jobs Boost as RSE Lands Long-Term Contracts with Scottish Water

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RSE are delighted to announce multiple framework contract wins with Scottish Water, providing long term job security for our staff and a commitment to employ 330 new apprentice and graduate trainees in Scotland over the next 6 years.

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Scottish Water have awarded three key frameworks to RSE for MEICA Capital Investment, Chemical Dosing, and Motor Control Centres & Systems Integration. In addition, RSE have been awarded a mechanical/electrical repair and maintenance framework under our joint venture RWGM.

Through these awards RSE will support Scottish Water’s plans to deliver £1 Billion of projects per year for the next six years, delivering projects, products, and operational services across key elements of Scottish Water’s operational and capital investment portfolio. With the potential for these contracts to be extended to 12 years.

RSE have a long-standing relationship with Scottish Water; supporting the design, build and maintenance of their water treatment and water recycling equipment throughout the country.

In the previous framework period (SR15), RSE and Scottish Water partnered to develop award winning treatment plants manufactured in an offsite, modular configuration. These have been heralded as game changing in the water industry, improving schedule and cost whilst reducing carbon in the atmosphere. RSE’s modular approach is expected to play a key role in achieving Scottish Water’s net zero carbon emissions target for 2040.

RSE’s 1,000+ staff make it one of the UK’s largest technology companies in the UK water sector: providing mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls and automation (MEICA) services.

We have enjoyed a great relationship with Scottish Water to date and are excited to continue this relationship for many years to come. The framework award is the start of a renewed 6-year period, where we will continue to invest in our people, having set some ambitious graduate and apprenticeship targets. We invested heavily into our people in the past six years and this has supported a wave of innovation and new standards in the water industry. The development of our modular treatment plants is one example of this. We are expecting the next intake of talent to advance the business even further.

We set out our strategic ambitions for the future of the country’s water and wastewater services in the face of unprecedented challenges from climate change and aging infrastructure in February 2020. Partners will play a critical role in helping us achieve the change needed, on the scale and speed required to meet the dual challenges of providing services the public can rely on and addressing the impact of a changing world climate on our infrastructure.

As the local MSP for Ross-shire Engineering, I am delighted to see the growth of the company. I’ve visited in the past and been impressed with the number of apprentices and the training programme. Securing these contracts guarantees a pipeline of work for RSE and therefore secures local jobs. I hope that RSE will continue to contribute to the local and national economy for many years to come.