The Meitec Group, a Tokyo-based provider of engineering staffing, announced it plans a new employee system for engineer staffing focused on local areas for local engineers. And it plans to start the system in the Kyushu area.

Kyushu has clusters of manufacturers including automobiles, semiconductors and industrial equipment makers. Kyushu also ranks as the largest area for staffing based on data from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, according to the company.

“The group will establish a new employee system exclusively for local areas within Meitec Fielders to respond to the demands for diverse approaches to work in addition to the conventional approaches to work nationally,” according to the company. “As the group’s first project, this is intended to achieve a balance between private lifestyles and new approaches to work using the group’s know-how about career development support.”

Meitec has provided staffing to more than 4,000 Japanese manufacturing firms since its start in 1974. It has a pool of approximately 8,700 design and development engineers.