Manufacturing jobs boost as 'growing' Sheffield business reveals expansion plans
Plans would see more taken on at ‘growing’ manufacturer
Expansion plans have been revealed which would see new jobs created at a growing Sheffield manufacturing firm.
Under the scheme described by Magnomatics, which already works at a site on Bernard Road, near the Parkway, they would open a second site at Nunnery Drive, on Parkway Industrial Estate.
Magnomatics, which was set up in 2006, manufactures of a wide range of electric machines and related products from their existing site.
Under their new plans, which are outlined as part of a planning application lodged with Sheffield Council, they would continue to operate the Bernard Road site, but would also open a new location to provide component storage and assembly of electrical machines.
A planning statement which has been submitted by Staffordshire-based planning consultants Knights, as part of the planning application, states: “The applicant employs 42 staff across its business, and it is envisaged that this proposal would create at least nine additional jobs at the application site.”
Most of the jobs would be in assembly work on the factory floor, they stated.
The company wants to switch the planning status of the building from ‘storage and distribution’ to ‘light industrial’.
The last company to use the building was SDL Minofern, who supplied vehicle parts.
The 690 square metre building that Magnomatics wants to use is about a mile away from the company’s main site.
Knights describe Magnomatics as an important technology company in the local area.
They added: “As a spinout from Sheffield University in 2006, the company still has important links with the university undertaking joint funded grant projects and providing at least two undergraduate placements for engineering students on an ongoing basis.
“The company is going through a significant growth phase and increasing its operational basis in the city.”
The company supplies the marine and aerospace industries, and the new building would also see the relocation of some of their existing staff across to the new site.