Establishing the Engineer Staffing Business as a Core Business

「UTテクノロジー株式会社 and UTコンストラクション株式会社, which comprised the Engineering business in the previous consolidated fiscal year, were sold in April 2024. In connection with the organizational reorganization, from the current interim consolidated accounting period the reportable segments have been changed from the former Manufacturing, Area, Solutions, Engineering and Overseas businesses to the Manufacturing, Area, Solutions, Japanese-Brazilian Human Resources and Vietnam businesses.」

「The 184 new graduates who joined the company in April this year began working at an early stage. In light of strong demand in the Construction Engineers and IT Engineers fields, hiring-related expenses increased as the company pursued new graduate recruitment for April 2024 more aggressively than in typical years.」

「The company’s longstanding focus on establishing systems for training and assigning new graduates proved effective, enabling approximately 200 new graduates who joined in April 2022 to begin working and become productive earlier than in the previous fiscal year. Orders remained solid in both construction and IT, and the increase in technical employees year on year resulted in higher revenue and profit.」

「During the cumulative third quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, approximately 200 new graduates who joined the company in April 2022 began working at an early stage. In the Engineering business, the company’s longstanding focus on establishing systems for training and assigning new graduates proved effective, enabling new graduates to become productive earlier than in the previous fiscal year. Orders remained solid in both construction and IT, and the increase in technical employees year on year resulted in higher revenue and profit.」

「During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, approximately 200 new graduates who joined the company in April 2022 began working at an early stage. In the Engineering business, the company’s longstanding focus on establishing systems for training and assigning new graduates proved effective, enabling new graduates to become productive earlier than in the previous fiscal year.」

「Following the segment reorganization, the Engineering business comprises UTコンストラクション株式会社 and UTテクノロジー株式会社 and is divided into the Construction Engineers and IT Engineers subsegments. Of the Design and Manufacturing Engineers field that comprised the Engineering business before the segment reorganization, some design and development engineers and the semiconductor manufacturing equipment engineers have been transferred to the Manufacturing business.」

「In the Engineering business, demand for field engineers, mainly from major semiconductor manufacturing equipment makers and semiconductor manufacturers, increased. In addition to restarting the in-house One UT program, which supports career changes from manufacturing operators to engineers and had been difficult to operate under the spread of COVID-19 in the previous fiscal year, the company opened the fourth site of its Technology Capability Development Center specialist training facilities in Osaka to train semiconductor manufacturing equipment engineers, strengthening its ability to develop and place such engineers.」

「In the Engineering business, demand for field engineers, mainly from major semiconductor manufacturing equipment makers and semiconductor manufacturers, increased. In addition to restarting the in-house One UT program, which supports career changes from manufacturing operators to engineers and had been difficult to operate under the spread of COVID-19 in the previous fiscal year, the company opened the fourth site of its Technology Capability Development Center specialist training facilities in Osaka to train semiconductor manufacturing equipment engineers, strengthening its ability to develop and place such engineers.」

「In the Engineering business, demand for field engineers, mainly from major semiconductor manufacturing equipment makers and semiconductor manufacturers, increased. In addition to restarting the in-house One UT program, which supports career changes from manufacturing operators to engineers and had been difficult to operate under the spread of COVID-19 in the previous fiscal year, the company opened the fourth site of its Technology Capability Development Center specialist training facilities in Osaka to train semiconductor manufacturing equipment engineers, strengthening its ability to develop and place such engineers. As a result, revenue was ¥8,329 million (¥8,138 million in the same period of the previous year, up 2.3%), segment profit was ¥1,160 million (¥1,174 million, down 1.2%), and the number of technical employees was 2,695 (2,609, an increase of 86).」

「In the previous fiscal year, the number of technical employees continued to increase net of departures quarter on quarter from the bottom reached at the end of December 2020, following the resumption of "One UT," an internal program supporting career changes from manufacturing operators to engineers that had been difficult to operate amid the spread of COVID-19, and the arrival of new graduate employees in April 2021. In addition, the company opened the fourth location of the Technology Capability Development Center, a specialized training facility for developing semiconductor manufacturing equipment engineers, in Osaka, establishing a foundation to produce 3,000 semiconductor manufacturing equipment engineers over 3 years.」

「In the Engineering business, the number of technical employees and revenue declined because all shares held in Lei Hau’oli, Inc., a consolidated subsidiary, were sold on 29 January 2020 following a review of business strategy, and it was difficult to operate the internal "One UT" program supporting career changes from manufacturing operators to engineers amid the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, profit increased substantially as field engineering and facilities maintenance remained solid, particularly among major manufacturers, and utilization improved through greater operational efficiency resulting from the reorganization of operating companies and a review of the training and assignment processes for new graduates.」

「Meanwhile, utilization improved through greater operational efficiency resulting from the reorganization of operating companies and a review of the training and assignment processes for new graduates, resulting in a substantial increase in profit. As a result, revenue was ¥8,138 million (¥8,646 million in the same period of the previous year, down 5.9%), segment profit was ¥1,174 million (¥351 million, up 234.6%), and the number of technical employees was 2,609 (2,826, down 217).」

「Meanwhile, utilization improved through greater operational efficiency resulting from the reorganization of operating companies and a review of the training and assignment processes for new graduates, resulting in a substantial increase in profit. As a result, revenue was ¥4,099 million (¥4,276 million in the same period of the previous year, down 4.1%), segment profit was ¥574 million (segment profit of ¥87 million in the same period of the previous year), and the number of technical employees was 2,806 (2,934, down 128).」

「In the Engineering business, although demand for personnel among customers related to semiconductor manufacturing equipment showed signs of settling due to production adjustments, demand remained strong, particularly for field engineers, facilities maintenance and civil engineering and construction, and revenue increased substantially as assignments progressed. However, profit declined due in part to the impact of initial training conducted in the first quarter for more than 900 new graduate employees, approximately twice as many as in the previous year. As a result, revenue was ¥12,768 million (¥10,455 million in the same period of the previous year, up 22.1%), segment profit was ¥582 million (¥761 million, down 23.5%), and the number of technical employees was 2,804 (2,257, up 547).」

「In the Engineering business, although demand for personnel among customers related to semiconductor manufacturing equipment showed signs of settling due to production adjustments, demand remained strong, particularly for field engineers, facilities maintenance and civil engineering and construction, and revenue increased substantially as assignments progressed. As a result, revenue was ¥8,646 million (¥6,723 million in the same period of the previous year, up 28.6%), segment profit was ¥351 million (¥428 million, down 18.1%), and the number of technical employees was 2,826 (2,135, up 691).」

「In the Engineering business, the number of technical employees increased substantially after the company welcomed more than 900 new graduates in April, approximately twice as many as in the previous year. Although demand for personnel among customers related to semiconductor manufacturing equipment showed signs of settling due to production adjustments, demand remained strong, particularly for field engineers and facilities maintenance as well as design and development work related to automobiles, and assignments progressed. New graduate hires are non-operational for a certain period during initial training, so the profit margin declined substantially year on year in the first quarter consolidated accounting period. This was a temporary factor arising from new graduate hiring and did not affect full-year profitability. As a result, revenue was ¥4,276 million (¥3,328 million in the same period of the previous year, up 28.5%), segment profit was ¥87 million (¥271 million, down 67.8%), and the number of technical employees was 2,934 (2,101, up 833).」

「In the Engineering business, to address the chronic shortage of engineering personnel in industry, the company expanded its technical workforce through new graduate hiring and "One UT," an intra-Group transfer program that promotes career changes for manufacturing operators belonging to the Manufacturing business and other businesses to become design and development engineers. Revenue increased year on year. In addition, segment profit improved substantially through measures to improve profitability, including the integration of operating companies and rigorous sales management. As a result, revenue was ¥14,051 million (¥10,655 million in the same period of the previous year, up 31.9%), operating profit was ¥1,074 million (¥238 million, up 350.3%), and the number of technical employees was 2,291 (1,780, up 511).」

「In the Engineering business, to address the chronic shortage of engineering personnel in industry, the company expanded its technical workforce through new graduate hiring and "One UT," an intra-Group transfer program that promotes career changes for manufacturing operators belonging to the Manufacturing business and other businesses to become design and development engineers. Revenue increased year on year. In addition, segment profit improved substantially through measures to improve profitability, including the integration of operating companies and rigorous sales management. As a result, revenue was ¥10,455 million (¥7,755 million in the same period of the previous year, up 34.8%), segment profit was ¥761 million (¥33 million in the same period of the previous year), and the number of technical employees was 2,257 (1,747, up 510).」

「In the Engineering business, to address the chronic shortage of engineering personnel in industry, the company expanded its technical workforce through new graduate hiring and "One UT," an intra-Group transfer program that promotes career changes for manufacturing operators belonging to the Manufacturing business and other businesses to become design and development engineers. Revenue increased substantially from the previous fiscal year. In addition, segment profit improved substantially through measures to improve profitability, including efficiency gains from integrating operating companies and rigorous sales management. As a result, revenue was ¥6,723 million (¥4,959 million in the same period of the previous year, up 35.6%), segment profit was ¥428 million (segment loss of ¥48 million in the same period of the previous year), and the number of technical employees was 2,135 (1,691, up 444).」

「In the Engineering business, to address the chronic shortage of engineering personnel in industry, the company expanded its technical workforce through new graduate hiring and "One UT," an intra-Group transfer program that promotes career changes for manufacturing operators belonging to the Manufacturing business and other businesses to become design and development engineers. Revenue increased substantially from the previous fiscal year. In addition, segment profit improved substantially through measures to improve profitability, including efficiency gains from integrating operating companies and rigorous sales management. As a result, revenue was ¥3,328 million (¥2,378 million in the same period of the previous year, up 39.9%), segment profit was ¥271 million (segment loss of ¥94 million in the same period of the previous year), and the number of technical employees was 2,101 (1,661, up 440).」

「In the Engineering business, amid the social shortage of engineering personnel, "One UT" and the system for training inexperienced workers to become engineers were valued by both jobseekers and customer companies, resulting in strong hiring and orders.」

「In the Engineering business, to address the chronic shortage of engineering personnel in industry, the company expanded its technical workforce through new graduate hiring and "One UT," an intra-Group transfer program that promotes career changes for manufacturing operators belonging to the Manufacturing business and other businesses to become design and development engineers. Revenue increased year on year. However, segment profit declined due to higher costs for establishing an engineer training system to strengthen the business foundation and higher amortization of goodwill. As a result, revenue was ¥7,755 million (¥5,559 million in the same period of the previous year, up 39.5%), segment profit was ¥33 million (¥124 million, down 72.8%), and the number of technical employees was 1,747 (1,287, up 460).」

「In the Engineering business, to address the chronic shortage of engineering personnel in industry, the company expanded its technical workforce through new graduate hiring and "One UT," an intra-Group transfer program that promotes career changes for manufacturing operators belonging to the Manufacturing business and other businesses to become design and development engineers. Revenue increased substantially year on year.」

「In the Engineering business, to address the chronic shortage of engineering personnel in industry, the company expanded its technical workforce through new graduate hiring and "One UT," an intra-Group transfer program that promotes career changes for manufacturing operators belonging to the Manufacturing business and other businesses to become design and development engineers. Revenue increased substantially from the previous fiscal year. As a result, revenue was ¥2,378 million (¥1,685 million in the same period of the previous year, up 41.1%), segment loss was ¥94 million (segment profit of ¥32 million in the same period of the previous year), and the number of technical employees was 1,661 (1,172, up 489).」

「In the Engineer Staffing business, customer orders and hiring increased because initiatives such as establishing a vocational training system to systematically educate and train inexperienced workers in response to the shortage of engineering personnel across various industries were valued by both jobseekers and customers. As a result, revenue and profit progressed steadily.」

「In the Engineer Staffing business, customer orders and hiring increased because initiatives such as establishing a vocational training system to systematically educate and train inexperienced workers in response to the shortage of engineering personnel across various industries were valued by both jobseekers and customers. As a result, revenue and profit progressed steadily. Revenue was ¥3,576 million (¥2,599 million in the same period of the previous year, up 37.6%), operating profit was ¥221 million (¥95 million, up 132.7%), and the number of technical employees was 1,235 (857, up 378).」

「The Group had previously operated as a single Outsourcing Business segment. However, as the Engineering Staffing Business became increasingly important, it reviewed its segment classification and, starting from the current first quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, changed its reportable segments from the previous single segment to Manufacturing Staffing and Engineering Staffing.」

「In the Engineer Staffing business, the company will work to establish recruitment infrastructure and expand its share in markets where demand is expected, primarily among customer companies in the manufacturing industry, as part of its efforts to make the Engineer Staffing business a core business.」