Telecoms firm launches major recruitment drive

Trainee engineers are to be hired in Renfrewshire as part of the largest recruitment drive ever undertaken by telecommunications network Openreach.

It is part of its accelerated plans to build more ultrafast Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband across the UK.

The 400 new roles in Scotland, part of 3,500 available across the UK during the next 12 months, will be located across the country, with the 25 posts in Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire based in Paisley, Johnstone, and Lochwinnoch.

Trainees will join a team of telecoms engineers working to expand, upgrade, maintain and install new services over Openreach’s national broadband network.

Clive Selley, chief executive of Openreach, said:“These trainee engineers will be playing a vital role in the future success and prosperity of Scotland. Over the past year, our 3,000 Scottish engineers have been the driving force behind making‘superfast’ broadband available to more than 93 per cent of the country, while also improving our customer service performance – but we want to do more.

“Every day, Openreach engineers are working in all weathers across the length and breadth of Scotland, connecting homes and businesses and making sure people can access the high quality broadband services they need.

“We are already investing in upskilling our engineering team and today’s announcement of new jobs, including 400 in Scotland, underlines our commitment to make our Fibre First programme a reality – future-proofing Britain’s broadband network and supporting emerging mobile technologies like 5G.”

Find out more about the trainee engineer scheme at www.btplc. com