Careers and Jobs

US multinational Bausch & Lomb is reported to be seeking 195 voluntary redundancies at its manufacturing plant in Waterford according to one leading newspaper this afternoon. Bausch & Lomb is one of the leading employers in the South-East region and this news will come as another major blow to Waterford. The company currently employs 1,400 staff for whom the news was broken today by management.

Bausch & Lomb manufactures contact lenses.

Intel, Smart Telecom, Facebook & Telcorp – Weekly Jobs Update in Ireland

SMART TELECOM confirmed this week that they were considering job cuts. Word from the company indicated that there could be up to 30 or 40 positions at risk from the 90 strong workforce.

INTEL announced that it is seeking 300 job cuts at its plant in Leixlip, County Kildare. It seemed like Ireland had missed out on global restructuring with 6,000 jobs cut across plants globally. This news is worrying for workers at the plant even though the company has stressed that the plant has a strong role to play in future.

FACEBOOK will create 40 new jobs in Dublin. We brought you news of this earlier in the year. Although the new jobs numbers created is small it does sent a message that Ireland can still attract big name employers due to its strategic geographical position and skilled workforce.

Mobile services firm TELCORP announced it is going to create 20 new jobs in Dublin. Telcorp was founded in mid 2008. The company is hiring mobile sales and service staff for its office in Sandyford where it currently employs five staff and provides a range of services from mobile handsets to fixed line solutions to IT services.

County Cavan bucked the jobs trend this week when Pauwels Trafo Ireland announced that it will be creating 70 new jobs in Cavan Town. The 70 jobs will be “high quality jobs” and will be created over the next 2 years. These jobs come as part of a EUR12m investment to expand the manufacturing facility. Pauwels Trafo Ireland manufactures wind transformers for western European markets. The company is owned by Crompton Greaves which is one of India’s largest private sector firms. I guess this is Karma paying Ireland back for all the recent job loss to low cost economies like India.

Dublin also received good news when Microsol announced that is will be investing in R&D at its operation in Dublin. There was no mention of a figure but these are the high end announcements we want. Microsol is based in D2 and they supply state of the art control technology. Interestingly they are also owned by Crompton Greaves.

Another announcement which was not so good was the news released from Xerox. They will slash 3,000 jobs globally which could have a direct impact on jobs in Ireland.

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