Engineering jobs tumble off mining cliff

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Expect more of this for two more years, from the AFR:

Engineering group UGL plans to cut 200 jobs to slash costs and has warned of fresh write downs as new chief executive Ross Taylor tries to create a sustainable business model for the company.

UGL said it would save $33 million annually from fiscal 2016 by cutting 200 full time employees by June 30, and removing the “duplication of roles” associated with the $1.2 billion sale of its property arm, DTZ, last year.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.