'Fully committed to Yorkshire': Filtronic plans to hire more staff for Yeadon site as part of expansion plans
Communications technology firm Filtronic is planning further hiring in Yorkshire as it continues to expand the size of its business.
The company, which moved its registered office from Yorkshire to County Durham in 2022 and designs and manufactures advanced radio frequency (RF) solutions for the space, aerospace, defence and telecoms infrastructure sectors, still employs 20 people in Yeadon, West Yorkshire.
It has just expanded the size of its operations at the NetPark science park in Sedgefield, County Durham.
Michael Tyerman, chief financial officer of the company, told The Yorkshire Post: “Yorkshire is still an important geography for Filtronic enabling us to access the highly skilled RF engineering talent pool.
"There is a rich heritage of RF engineering skills, in large due to the legacy of Filtronic. We remain fully committed to the Yorkshire area where we employ 20 people at our site in Yeadon and have plans to invest further in Yorkshire with additional job creation as we execute on our growth plans.
“We have open requisitions for a number of engineering vacancies across a range of disciplines. Our Yeadon site is one of engineering design offices. We currently have 220 employees in the group and looking to increase that with an additional 30 heads in the next few months.
"We would expect an addition of at least 20 per cent uplift of headcount at the Yeadon site within the next 12 months.”