Johnson & Johnson Vision has announced it will be creating up to 200 new positions over the next three years following its €35 million investment into its Limerick facility. These positions include jobs needed for the construction phase of this project. The roles will also be across automation, operations, quality control, and process engineering.
Hiring has already begun for a number of the roles. Some of these positions include IT jobs such as supply chain data analyst, lead data engineer, Salesforce developer, and lead software developer. Johnson & Johnson Vision is part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech and they specialise in designing, manufacturing, developing, and researching products for eye health like contact lenses.
The company is headquartered in the US and some of its products include Acuvue lenses and Tecnis intraocular lenses for patients with cataracts. Their Limerick base is their biggest manufacturing operation and opened in the mid-1990s. Currently, they have 1,600 team members and are planning for much more significant growth in Ireland. People who are interested in finding out more about the jobs available should keep an eye on the company’s career website.
Ultra Clean will be opening up a new facility in Cavan which will serve its European customer base. This will also enable them to capitalise on longer-term growth opportunities. Ultra Clean is a US semiconductor services company and as a result of this new facility, they are set to hire for 100 new roles in Cavan and expand their offering further globally.
This expansion will lead to the company hiring for people for facilities, on-site shipping, engineering, manufacturing, quality control, customer service, on-site shipping and receiving, and sales positions. Ultra Clean is in the process of building its new advanced technology cleaning facility at the IDA Ireland Business and Technology Park situated in Killygarry, County Cavan. The site is predicted to be in operation in the third quarter of 2022.
The new Irish facility will be part of the company’s services division. The Irish facility will provide coating and ultra-high purity cleaning for tool chamber parts in addition to chipmakers, micro-contamination analytical services, and equipment providers. Once finished, the facility will act as the company’s 15th services site. The base will support Europe-based customers and Intel primarily.
President of Ultra Clean’s services division, Bill Bentimck has said the facility will allow the business to better serve its European customers and deliver value so they can capitalise on longer-term growth opportunities. He has also said they will be collaborating with IDA Ireland to get the Irish expansion moving. IDA Ireland has supported numerous other businesses in the last few weeks on their hiring plans around Ireland, including Analog Devices, Gong, and Telus.
TLI Group has announced its plans to grow its team by 90 in 2022 following the opening of its new engineering hub in Kerry. The expansion also comes as they hope to cater to additional clients including the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, Siro, ESB Networks, and National Broadband Ireland.
TLI Group is a utility infrastructure consultancy and construction business that has offices in the UK and Ireland. They currently employ over 850 people. Some of the roles they are recruiting for at the moment include electrical design engineers, graduate engineers, electricians, project engineers, civil and structural design engineers, and GIS analysts. These roles are being advertised in locations all over Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Their offices are in Hampshire in the UK and Kerry in Ireland and they have recently opened a new office in Tralee, County Kerry which will be dedicated to their engineering team. The hub was opened following the high demand for the company’s services within the renewable energy sector. The engineering team offers specialised engineering design and consultancy services to the renewable energy sector in the form of substation designs and high voltage grid connections.
The company has engineers across a wide range of areas including civil, electrical, mechanical, structural, GIS, and technicians. Managing Director of TLI Group, John Tuite has said the company’s continuous growth is the result of the work of the existing team. TLI Group is a contractor of Siro, the joint venture of ESB and Vodafone, and assisted in delivering Siro’s fibre-to-the-building network around Ireland.
Bank of Ireland has announced its plans to hire for 100 technology positions. In addition to the news that they are hiring, they will also be providing flexible and remote working options for these roles.
They are recruiting for software developers, engineers, technical architects, scrum masters, project managers, and data analysts. The new hires will join their existing technology teams as they work to expand the bank’s digital offering.
They will also be able to work anywhere in Ireland and can work from a combination of central office locations and home, as well as from one of the bank’s remote working hubs. These hubs are situated in Santry, Blanchardstown, Newlands Cross, Swords, Mullingar, Gorey, Northern Cross, Newbridge, Dundalk, Naas, and Balbriggan.
This tech-focused hiring surge comes as part of their continuous digital transformation strategy. The strategy aims to boost and enhance digital services for customers across business, corporate and personal banking in addition to the bank’s insurance business and wealth.
These new positions come on top of the 130 similar technology positions they recruited for in 2021. Bank of Ireland has said the recruitment of the new tech positions will prove vital in relation to how the bank serves its customers and develops its business in the future.
HR Director at Bank of Ireland, Eimear Harty said: “We have many colleagues with deep technology expertise and these new positions will add to this. We are ambitious for the development of our digital services, and we offer a very progressive approach to flexible working.”
Numerous companies across Ireland are currently hiring for skilled engineers. Below are some of them that are accepting applications right away.
Amgen
The Pharma giant has recently shared its plans to invest $100 million into a new site infrastructure and vial filling line at their Dún Laoghaire manufacturing plant. Currently, they seek a process and equipment engineer, a manufacturing security engineer, an industrial engineer, and a senior validation engineer.
Avanade
The tech consulting business has several IT specialisms including digital transformation, cloud, business analytics, and artificial intelligence. They are currently recruiting for numerous software engineering positions. Some of these include a back-end developer, a data platform engineer, a DevOps consultant, and a Net development lead.
BT
BT is a UK telecoms company and they are currently recruiting for an array of engineer positions. Some of the current roles they are hiring for are senior software development engineers, network engineers, service desk engineers, and data engineers.
Bristol Myers Squibb
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has a massive workforce across its Irish locations. They are hiring at the moment for an automation/MES engineer.
Deloitte
Deloitte is a professional services firm and they have recently announced their plans to hire for 300 positions. These include tech roles in areas like systems engineering, cloud, and data analytics.
Citi
Citi is a worldwide financial player and they have an innovation lab in Dublin. Currently, they are looking to hire numerous people in the area of engineering. Some of the roles they are hiring for include DevSecOps engineer, software engineer, principle data engineer, public cloud platform engineer, and innovation full-stack engineer.
Fidelity Investments
Last year, Fidelity Investments announced its plans to hire for 90 new tech roles in Galway and Dublin. Currently, they are looking for a senior software quality engineer, a performance quality engineer, a principal cloud AWS engineer, and a blockchain software engineer.
Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet is a data and analytics firm and they are recruiting for numerous software engineering posts in addition to architect positions in Ireland.
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