£4m boost for Redcar industrial estate

A boost of £4m has been pledged to help expand a major industrial estate in Redcar.

In the first phase of the project, Redcar’s Skippers Lane Industrial Estate would be extended by almost eight acres to the east of the current site, with a new roundabout at the existing Skippers Lane/Sotherby Road junction.

Additional work would also unlock a further 20 acres for future development.

Eight new units will be built, totalling 86,500 sq ft and capable of supporting 134 jobs.

The scheme is being supported by a £3.5m investment from the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority and £433,000 in funding from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council. 

It could pave the way for a further £15.7m in business investment.

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said: “I realise industrial estates aren’t the most glamorous or shiny of investments, but they are vital to give our brilliant businesses the room they need to grow and, in turn, create good-quality, well-paid jobs for local people.

“As we continue to recover our economy from the coronavirus pandemic, we need to get moving today on schemes which will support the expansion of our companies tomorrow and we’ve already seen that there is appetite for this particular project.”

Time and Attendance NorthEast – Your expanding workforce management solution

Creating over 130 additional jobs in a £4m office expansion project is likely to cause workforce management issues. Of course it is a fantastic opportunity to grow your business / businesses at this particular industrial estate, however, it can put huge pressures on the HR team that have to deal with the increase in employees. 

At Time and Attendance NorthEast, we provide an all-in-one Smart Card Time and Attendance recording workstation. This incorporates; job booking, job costing, labour hours analysis and security management including quality CCTV playback. 

Our state of the art system will dramatically improve your HR and security management with features that give you irrefutable control over Time and Attendance, working patterns rules, the EU working time regulations and the EU road transport directive regulations.

In addition to this, we also provide a Self Service Module (SSM). The SSM is a web-based application that allows enrolled employees to Clock In or Out, for Time and Attendance purposes, and book themselves On or Off the fire evacuation list.

SSM may also be used by employees to book On or Off production jobs via their internet browser. A person can use SSM to request new periods of absence, cancel pending absence requests or cancel approved absence requests that have not yet occurred. Requests can also be made to add missed clockings, amend or delete clockings made in error.

Our systems enhance businesses that have an expanding workforce and require an easy and reliable solution to manage the increase in heads. 

If you would like more information, or if you would like a quote, please get in touch with a member of our sales team today who will be happy to help.