A recruitment agency on Merseyside is urging redundant workers to seize opportunities in the emerging green energy industry.

Scantec Personnel has said that, with the Government promoting the ‘green energy revolution’ as a key driver out of recession, there are real career opportunities in the sector. Its managing director John Robinson believes an estimated 160,000 jobs will be created in the green industries by 2020.

“The recession is wreaking havoc with the jobs market and it is vital workers think about how they can transfer their skills to other sectors,” he said. “We are advising jobhunters to think about key industries which have a strong future. In the green sector we are seeing a wide variety of roles, including engineers, architects, financiers, plumbers, installers, waste workers, project managers and marketeers. And these jobs are not just in traditional green sectors such as wind farms, regulators and public-sector agencies. Increasingly green jobs are appearing in the private sector and within large organisations, which are committing greater investment to becoming environmentally friendly.”