Newburgh Engineering Co Limited has appointed Jonathan Todd as business systems manager, with his immediate priority being the implementation of FactoryMaster, a Manufacturing Resource Planning system covering production planning, purchasing, inventory management, scheduling and reporting.

Newburgh Engineering Co Limited (Companies House no. 06819042) is a Bradwell, Derbyshire-based precision engineering business founded in 1939, manufacturing high-integrity components and assemblies for nuclear, defence, aerospace and advanced engineering customers including Westinghouse, with whom a 40-year supply relationship exists. The company became an Employee Ownership Trust in 2022 and recently returned to the historic Newburgh Engineering Co name, having previously traded as Nuclear Energy Components Limited.

The company employs approximately 24 people and is led by managing director Matt Keeley. Revenue and EBITDA are not publicly disclosed. Todd originally joined Newburgh as an apprentice, winning the EEF Midlands Outstanding Achievement by a First-Year Apprentice award, before progressing through engineering and operations roles at other manufacturing organisations.

The structural driver is the operational systems gap that precision engineering businesses in regulated sectors face as they scale. Nuclear and aerospace supply chains require increasingly sophisticated quality, traceability and production planning documentation, and the manual or legacy systems that serve a 20-person business at one revenue level become compliance and efficiency liabilities at the next.

Newburgh's investment in FactoryMaster is the digital infrastructure prerequisite for growth in sectors where audit trails, materials traceability and production scheduling are contractual requirements, not optional process improvements.

Appointing an internal returnee to lead the implementation rather than an external consultant is deliberate. Todd's original Newburgh apprenticeship gives him institutional knowledge of the manufacturing processes the system must support, eliminating the translation layer that slows external MRP implementations in specialist engineering environments.

For the sector, the Newburgh appointment reflects a pattern across UK employee-owned precision engineering SMEs: EOT ownership stability, long-term OEM relationships and targeted technology investment are creating the conditions for sustainable growth in safety-critical manufacturing sectors where continuity and quality assurance are the primary competitive differentiators.

Source: pesmedia.com / newburgh.co.uk / find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk / nec-ltd.co.uk