Nuclear move for Thurso based IT company Escape Business Technologies
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CAITHNESS-based IT firm Escape Business Technologies has announced that it has secured a three-year contract with Nuclear Decommissioning Services Ltd in Thurso.
The company, which has a branch at the Janetstown Industrial Estate as well as in Aberdeen and Glasgow, earlier this year announced that it will be creating new jobs as it expands its workforce in the Far North. It will manage all IT-related issues for NDSL under the managed services contract.
NDSL is Escape’s first client in the nuclear industry and represents the IT company’s success and continued growth in the Highlands and Islands region.
Anthony Wicks, network operations centre manager at Escape’s Thurso office, said: "Since expanding to Caithness in 2010 we have built up a strong reputation in the area and manage varying IT packages for clients operating across the Highlands and Islands region.
"It is a major growth region for us and we continue to see an increase in firms looking for an outsourced IT function.
"We remain focused on the global oil and gas industry and have diversified into the construction and renewable industries, and now nuclear."
Mr Wicks and Greg Beveridge, who are originally from Thurso and Wick respectively, have headed up the office since March 2010 and have since been joined by Craig McEwan, from Thurso, Graeme Scollay, from Orkney, and Debbi Stracey, from Kent, with plans in place to recruit an additional two members of staff within the next 12 months.
