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Powering Progress: 15 Years of Partnership with Siemens
For over 15 years, Vital has been a trusted recruitment partner to Siemens Group, supporting both their Energy and Rail divisions. Through a streamlined, compliant and efficient contractor management model, we help Siemens enhance workforce performance, strengthen compliance, and reduce operational complexity across their UK operations.
Context
Siemens Group is a global leader in technology and digital transformation, empowering industries to solve the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Within the Group, Siemens Energy plays a critical role in delivering a more sustainable, affordable and reliable energy system – from expanding renewables and modernising conventional power to strengthening electrical grids and driving industrial decarbonisation.
Vital’s long-term partnership with Siemens supports these ambitions, supplying high-quality technical and engineering talent across both the Energy and Rail sectors.
The Challenge
Siemens sought to:
- Improve operational efficiency across multiple project sites.
- Strengthen health, safety, quality and compliance standards.
- Consolidate suppliers to ensure consistency and cost control.
- Implement stronger oversight of right-to-work, IR35 and competency compliance.
- Deliver a streamlined, digital process for timesheets, billing, and contractor management.
These goals required a trusted workforce partner with deep industry understanding, compliance expertise, and the ability to scale seamlessly with Siemens’ dynamic project demands.
Our Solution
Vital was appointed as a tier-one supplier on Siemens’ Preferred Supplier List (PSL), managing the full contractor lifecycle across both Energy and Rail projects.
Our delivery model focused on:
- End-to-end contractor management through Fieldglass, Siemens’ digital workforce platform – overseeing timesheets, POs, billing, and compliance in one place.
- Proactive compliance control, ensuring all right-to-work, IR35, and competency checks were completed and recorded.
- Supplier consolidation, centralising service delivery to reduce administrative burden and improve workforce visibility.
- Flexible workforce deployment, managing a balanced mix of white- and blue-collar talent via PAYE, umbrella, and LTD models.
- Continuous partnership, maintaining open communication with Siemens’ HR, procurement, and operational teams to meet changing workforce needs.
This streamlined approach improved efficiency, visibility, and assurance – enabling Siemens to focus on innovation and delivery, not administration.
The results
Vital continues to play a key role in Siemens’ workforce success story:
- 15+ years as a trusted recruitment partner
- 130–150 contractors supplied weekly
- £16 million combined annual spend managed (2024)
- 50–60% of agency workers supplied via Vital
- Energy and Rail sectors managed under one partnership
Tier-one supplier status maintained throughout.
Key outcomes
- Improved compliance and safety across all assignments.
- Enhanced cost control through supplier consolidation.
- Greater workforce visibility via Fieldglass integration.
- Long-term stability and partnership built on trust and delivery.
Vital’s hands-on, compliant, and collaborative approach ensures Siemens continues to operate efficiently… with the right people, in the right place, every time.
