Online success leads to recruitment drive at Northern Industrial

Blackburn-based industrial automation spare parts and repair supplier, Northern Industrial, has announced the creation of 16 jobs following global expansion from online sales.

The recruitment drive comes after the 40-year-old company saw annual sales grow by £3m since the launch of its website three years ago.

The website currently has around 4.2 million pages, and enables the company to provide new, reconditioned and obsolete parts and repair services across the world from its premises on Shadsworth Industrial Estate, Blackburn.

Sourcing from more than 1,350 manufacturers, the company covers in excess of 200,000 part numbers and holds approximately £7m of stock.

Managing director David Lenehan said: “We’re looking to recruit 16 positions immediately across a spectrum of roles to support our ongoing growth, boosted substantially by the success of our website, which has allowed us to tap into a global customer base.

“The last few years have been great for us and every indication is that it will only get better.

“Although we have customers in a wide variety of manufacturing disciplines, one thing they all have in common is they want to avoid downtime at all costs.

“Sometimes you just need someone on your side in a stressful breakdown situation.

“Our aim is to provide the spare parts and repairs customers need as quickly as possible to minimise downtime.”

He added: “We specialise in keeping businesses up and running, with high quality industrial electronic spare parts, repairs and onsite support.”