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An independent, family owned hotel on the outskirts of Lincoln. With 20 bedrooms and three function rooms the hotel specialises in hosting exclusive use weddings and numerous other events from corporate meetings to birthday parties to charity events to funeral wakes. The hotel was awarded Hotel of the Year 2018 in the Lincolnshire Tourism Awards and also Hotel of the Year 2018 in the Tastes of Excellence Awards. The restaurant within the hotel is awarded 2 AA Rosettes for its culinary excellence.

We employ a wide mixture of wonderful people aged between 13 and 78. Job roles include Chefs, Front of House Assistants, Housekeepers, Gardeners, Maintenance, Receptionists, Wedding Planners.We have a friendly workforce and tend to attract individuals who take great pride in their work and the building in which they work. We have a strong team environment.

It's an exciting industry as no two days are the same and most people like to be kept busy - which is normally the case here. Nobody likes a day to drag!

We are a result-driven marketing and graphic design agency based in Lincoln. We specialise in marketing, strategy, graphic design and digital marketing that delivers to our clients.

Purple Robot was set up in 2013 by Damien Howard-Pask with the philosophy that marketing is more than just glossy flyers, slick websites and quirky tweets...it's about what a business wants to acheive and getting reuturn on investment. That continues to be our mantra today.

Now, having grown into a small team of dedicated marketing professionals, we offer a wide range of marketing and graphic design support for your business.

Our values are also an important and key part to the Purple Robot ethos and our identity as a business. Giving back to the local community, charity, and developing our own team is built into our DNA.

Purple Robot believes in looking after our own team, our clients and the world around us. We have made a commitment to invest in the development of all members of our team, play an active role in our local community, to do our part in raising money for good casuses, and ensure we take steps to reduce our impact on the environment.

Purple Robot also believes that Lincolnshire has a proud heritage, and we love to support and work with local businesses and organisations which celebrate the great traditions of our county.

Lincolnshire Cooperative is based in Lincoln. A co-op is owned and democratically controlled by its members. The members are the main people who benefit from the business. Co-ops vary in size, structure and even what type of work they carry out.

Co-ops with retail at their heart are probably the best known, but you can also find co-ops specialising in housing, farming, utilities and much more.

As one of the most profitable independent consumer co-operatives in the UK, we're proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from our family of businesses. Lincolnshire Co-op employs over 2,800 people throughout Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Norfolk and we're always growing.

As a co-operative, we're committed to the ethical principles which are important to our members, such as Fairtrade and sourcing products locally.

Siemens might be a global employer but it firmly believes in the value of 'growing its own' talent from local communities. Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd is based in Lincoln.

Apprenticeships are a vital tool in this process. As part of National Apprenticeship week, which runs from March 6 to March 10, Lincolnshire Live spoke to enthusiastic apprentices about their time at the firm's Lincoln Main Works site and also spoke to a former apprentice who has now made his way to the top of the career.

Siemens was established in the United Kingdom 169 years ago and now employs 12,972 people in the UK. Last year’s revenues were £4.4 billion. As a leading global engineering and technology services company, Siemens provides innovative solutions to help tackle the world’s major challenges, across the key sectors of energy, industry, infrastructure & cities and healthcare. Siemens has offices and factories throughout the UK, with its headquarters in Frimley, Surrey. The company’s global headquarters is in Munich, Germany.

Throughout time the boar has been a potent symbol of courage and prowess to many cultures around the world. So all in all, we thought it would fit nicely as the name for our restaurant.

We hand pick and train our staff to support us in ensuring that you are welcome in our unique restaurant, enjoy quality service and savour our dishes in a relaxed atmosphere.

Our meats and vegetables are sourced locally, our fish comes from renewable sources and from the British shores whenever feasible. Our choice of wines is based on the recommendation of a sommelier to offer choices from the old world and a couple from the new world that would enhance our dishes.

The name “The Bronze Pig” unites Pompeo’s Italian National origins, the celebration of a long standing and loyal friend with a profound love of pigs and boars and the fact the we are based in Lincoln.

At NMB Minebea UK based in Lincoln, we are a world leader in the design and manufacture of bearing technologies. Wherever precision, speed and reliability are essential; we deliver exceptional solutions which improve the productivity and efficiency of our customer’s application or product. 

We are passionate about our product and believe that the key is to understand the challenges our customer’s face, by doing this we then connect our products, people and expertise to deliver exceptional service and solutions. We aim to exceed the expectations of our customers through the production of world-class precision-engineered product.

At HIT Training we have a positive vision of what apprenticeships can do: improve individual's skills and therefore their life chances; make businesses more efficient; and boost the economy. People are at the centre of everything we do; that goes for our own staff as well as those we serve. We take pride in helping people become the best they can be.

With a strong local focus, HIT offers hotel and catering apprenticeships at all levels and in all sectors. Since 2006 we have supported 100,000 learners at over 22,000 employer sites across the country. We hold two Grade 2 ‘Good’ OFSTED inspections.

More than 70% of HIT apprentices complete their apprenticeships and obtain either a BTEC or City & Guilds diploma.

Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Employing 45,000 people worldwide with 7000 of those in the UK. Leonardo has six sites in the UK specialising Electronic Warfare, Radar, Helicopters, Cyber and Infra-Red Technology. Our Lincoln site is home to the Leonardo Academy where we train our customers on the latest technologies. Also at Lincoln we have a strong focus on Electronic Warfare Operational Support (EWOS), supporting both UK and overseas customers.

Being a STEM focused company, Leonardo employs a vast range of engineers including; software, systems, controls, hardware, manufacturing, electronics and cyber. Routes into employment with Leonardo are through apprenticeships, graduate schemes and industrial placements. 

In the UK Leonardo spends around £3.5 million on employee training and development annually, providing young people with the opportunity to gain qualifications through on-the job training, whilst simultaneously undertaking academic study. We are also one of the largest employers of engineering apprentices and graduates in the UK with our apprenticeship scheme rated 'Outstanding' by OFSTED. 

Leonardo is also the first aerospace company in the UK to be awarded the Investors in Young People Gold Accreditation award which reflects the company's commitment to supporting young peoples' educational development.

At Leonardo, you are working with some of the latest technology, so advanced that many people don't know about it. Through work with some of the UK’s most renowned universities including Edinburgh, Bristol and Liverpool, Leonardo is investing in future research to maintain the UK’s position as a leader in world-wide technological innovation.

Every day, we shape our world by investing in, building, maintaining and renewing where we live and work. Every project we work on draws on the skills and expertise of our people. Their job is to make a positive impact on the world. Because what we achieve together in a day will have benefits that last for generations.

Kier is what you make it. That’s why we give you the scope and the support to invest in your own future. To build your expertise, and enable you to contribute to a rich and diverse culture. You are able to renew your career for the long-term with outstanding opportunities.

Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you’ll develop to be your best. Our approach to training and professional development is industry leading. Our priority is to help you to achieve your greatest potential.

Let’s shape your world together.

Kier Group plc. is a leading construction, property, residential and services group which invests in, builds, maintains and renews the places where we work, live and play. We operate globally across a range of sectors including defence, education, health, housing, industrials, power, transport and utilities. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, we are a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. 

With a network of 88 UK offices Kier offers national coverage across all of its core activities. Employing 22,000 people, Kier has the financial strength and technical expertise to undertake some of the most significant construction, civil engineering and service contracts in the country. Kier is an equality and diversity employer.

Lindum Group, based in North Hykeham,  believe that they offer a different service at Lindum. Lindum say that 'the difference is our people' and, as the majority of our employees are shareholders, they have an added interest in looking after your requirements. Essentially, the company looks after its people so that the employees can look after their clients with much more care and attention.

Construction is Lindum's primary business, with design and build an increasingly popular procurement method for clients, whether new build, refurbishment or maintenance projects.

They can service new build contracts up to £20m and refurbishment projects up to a value of £12m. In house resources means their clients benefit from having close attention and very good service at all times.

With extensive experience in land sourcing, funding, design and build construction and 'total procurement management' delivered by their Joint Venture Property Team Lindum Group look to develop opportunities by working with partners on projects and land opportunities.

In addition, they have developed a range of ‘in-house’ and ‘support services’ delivered through the 12 trading divisions which form Lindum Group - these range from plant hire and vehicle maintenance through to waste recycling.   

Dynex Semiconductors' are based in Lincoln.

Dynex designs and manufactures high power semiconductors for customers around the world including the European, US and the rapidly growing Far Eastern markets. The Power Semiconductor operation is located in Lincoln, England, manufacturing a range of high power Module and Bipolar discrete products that include insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and diode modules, IGBT/FRD die, fast diodes, fast thyristors, gate turn-off thyristors, rectifier diodes, phase control thyristors and transistors.

Cursor is a web technology business which builds innovative, people-focused websites, apps and software to help our customers work smarter online. 

In every project we do, we always strive to be a partner rather than a supplier. We build long-term relationships with our customers based on mutual trust and openness, allowing our talented and creative team to deliver bespoke products of the highest quality. 

We add value in everything we do, helping our customers to understand how web technology can change the way they work. We are a company built around people, not technology, so everything we make is created with the goal of enabling people and businesses to become more effective, productive and profitable.

Our versatile team is more creative than an IT department and more technical than a marketing agency. We take an active role at every stage of the creative process, ensuring that every aspect of our projects is given the care and attention it deserves. 

Our developers build bespoke websites and apps to suit our customers’ needs, our designers create beautiful interfaces which are easy to use, and our content designer produces professional, engaging copy to send out the right message. 

All our projects are overseen by our delivery manager, who works closely with the team to ensure that our products are delivered to the high standards we set for ourselves in everything we do.

Anyone joining Cursor will find a friendly team and an enthusiastic working environment in which every employee makes a key contribution to the projects we undertake. 

We encourage creativity and innovation in all our employees, allowing them to express their talents as much as possible. We never mindlessly follow a specification, always empowering our team to think outside the box and devise inventive solutions. 

The work we do makes a real-life difference, and we take on a huge diversity of projects, building technology for companies from many different industries. There’s never a dull moment working for Cursor.

Web technology is one of the fastest-moving industries around. It touches every aspect of our lives, whether it be home, work, or leisure. 

We pride ourselves on building technology which makes a difference to people and businesses every day. Anyone can see what we do and use what we make. For us, there’s no better feeling than knowing our work is making a positive impact in the real world. 

With technology evolving all the time, this is an industry in which you never stop learning. We will continue to innovate and adapt as the changes come thick and fast.