Employer Partners
GMIoT courses are co-designed with employers across Engineering, Computing, Healthcare, Construction and other technical sectors in Greater Manchester.
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Our Employer Partners
The GMIoT is a Greater Manchester partnership collaborating with key employers to collectively shape the curriculum in a method that prepares our upcoming students to gain in-demand skills for the future.
National intelligence, security and cyber agency.
GCHQ is a world-leading intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. Embarking on a once-in-a-generation undertaking in Manchester and the North West, it has been granted significant investment to accommodate workforce growth by 2030, with a goal of creating a GCHQ where everyone, whatever their start in life, can join, thrive and give back to the communities they serve.
Over the past two years, GCHQ has involved over 600 students across Greater Manchester, working with school, college and university students through partnerships with industry and academia across the North West region to grow and sustain diverse talent pipelines.
GCHQ’s partnership with the GMIoT will offer software engineering apprenticeships, analyst development programmes and university placements for students from diverse, underrepresented backgrounds.
Major engineering and construction organisation.
Laing O’Rourke is an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and building projects for clients across the UK.
With over 150 years of expertise, its highly trained people understand the challenges of modern construction, combining purposeful technology with innovations like digital engineering and AI for powerful results.
Laing O’Rourke has delivered a number of high-profile projects for Manchester Metrolink, Manchester Airports Group and the University of Manchester. Community engagement is a vital part of its work, ensuring each project leaves a lasting social legacy, from supporting people with barriers to employment to providing jobs, apprenticeships and work placements across the region.
World leaders in designing and manufacturing digital and technology solutions.
Siemens employs up to 11,000 people in Great Britain and Ireland. Since 2019, Siemens’ flagship building at Didsbury, Manchester has been designated the company’s UK Head Office.
Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport and healthcare, from more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains and smarter buildings and grids, to sustainable transportation and advanced healthcare.
“Innovating ‘technology with purpose’ is at the core of Siemens’ global strategy, and we have long been a supporter of industry, innovation, skills and manufacturing in the North West. The GMIoT will play an important role in helping people upskill and reskill in areas where employer demand is high.”
Gert Rohrmann MSc MIET, Training and Development Manager, People & Organisation
The UK’s leading public service broadcaster and a digital powerhouse.
As a strategic partner of the Greater Manchester Institute of Technology, the BBC plays an integral role in delivering high-quality vocational training and degree-level apprenticeships, providing new pathways into the creative media, engineering and digital technology sectors.
Through this partnership, the BBC supports curriculum development and engages in outreach to inspire a diverse range of learners to pursue careers in media and technology. Its strong presence in Greater Manchester and commitment to investing in the regional skills pipeline make it a key player in the region’s future workforce.
“The BBC in Greater Manchester is a digital powerhouse, home to many of our technology, engineering and creative operations staff and to some of the BBC’s biggest digital media products. We’re growing in our bases outside London and Salford is a thriving centre of content, people and innovation.”
Tim Sargeant, Head of Production Workflows and Systems, BBC Technology Group
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More Employers We Work With
Global online retailer and technology company. In the UK it runs Amazon.co.uk and Prime Video alongside fulfilment, delivery and corporate operations, with early-career routes that include apprenticeships.
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Altrincham-based engineering company, established in 1959, making products that control vibration, block noise transmission and thermally separate structures in buildings and industrial equipment.
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Brings together the city region’s councils and the Mayor to work on transport, skills, housing, health, the economy and the environment, with the aim of a thriving Greater Manchester where everyone can live a good life.
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Technology and consulting company combining consulting, software and infrastructure, with a focus on hybrid cloud and AI, including open-source software from Red Hat.
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Stockport-based part of the European land-defence group KNDS. It designs military bridging systems and was chosen as the UK site for building Boxer armoured vehicles for the British Army.
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Salford-headquartered engineering and technical recruitment business, placing permanent, contract and interim STEM talent with employers in aerospace, defence, rail, nuclear, construction, energy and more.
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Formed in 2021 from Salford Royal and the Pennine Acute Hospitals trusts, it provides hospital and community care to over a million people across Salford, Oldham, Rochdale and Bury, plus specialist services across Greater Manchester.
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Family-owned contractor founded in 1897 and now based in Bolton, delivering housing, decarbonisation, maintenance and property services.
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Manages the clean-up and decommissioning of the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, with work spanning nuclear waste, fuel reprocessing and decommissioning. It is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
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Electricity distribution network operator maintaining and upgrading the overhead lines and underground cables that power homes and businesses across the North West, from the Lake District to Manchester.
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