Employers
Who's hiring across the estuary
Independent profiles, not sponsored listings, of the organisations that shape employment on both banks of the Humber.
Associated British Ports (ABP) Humber
Associated British Ports operates the four Humber ports that between them handle around £75bn of trade a year, making it one of the region's most important logistics and infrastructure employers.
Immingham, North East Lincolnshire
KCOM
KCOM grew out of Hull's municipal telephone service and still runs the city's own full-fibre network, making it the most distinctive digital employer in the Humber, though one in a period of ownership change.
Hull, East Yorkshire
NHS Humber Health Partnership
NHS Humber Health Partnership brings Hull's teaching hospitals together with the acute trust covering North Lincolnshire, making it one of the biggest employers of any kind in the region.
Hull, East Yorkshire
Ørsted
The world's largest offshore wind developer runs its UK operations and maintenance base from Grimsby, with a new hub taking shape as its huge Hornsea 3 wind farm comes online.
Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
Phillips 66 — Humber Refinery
Phillips 66 runs one of the UK's largest oil refineries on the south bank of the Humber, a major fixture of the region's process and energy sector and a long-standing route into a craft apprenticeship.
South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire
Reckitt
The consumer health and hygiene group behind Dettol, Nurofen and Gaviscon began life in a Hull starch works in 1840, and its Dansom Lane site remains one of the city's largest science and manufacturing employers.
Hull, East Yorkshire
Siemens Gamesa
Siemens Gamesa's Hull factory makes the blades that go on offshore wind turbines around the UK and Europe, and it has grown into one of the Humber's most significant single employers since production started.
Hull, East Yorkshire
Siemens Mobility — Goole
Opened in October 2024 on a 67-acre site beside the M62, Siemens Mobility's Goole Rail Village assembles London Underground's new Piccadilly line trains and has been building its workforce, and its apprentice intake, in stages since 2020.
Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire
Smith+Nephew — Hull
A FTSE-listed medical technology company with roots in a Hull chemist's shop, Smith+Nephew still researches and manufactures advanced wound care in the city, and is building a major new facility eight miles away at Melton West.
Hull, East Yorkshire
Young's Seafood
One of the UK's best-known seafood brands, Young's Seafood processes and distributes fish and shellfish from Grimsby, the anchor of a food-manufacturing cluster that stretches back generations.
Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire