Posts Tagged ‘R&D’
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The shape of things to come for 2010 may be higher unemployment and lower economic activity for some sectors of the economy. But as far as medical and science sectors are concerned, we are still seeing considerable opportunities for growth; in particular the medical devices manufacturing sector which has recently seen major investment in R&D with such diverse companies as Teleflex, Baxter Healthcare, KCI Medical and Merit Medical.
All have seen further expansion this year and have increased growth in the development of their production and manufacturing facilities and directed extensive FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in new product developments which will see Ireland placed at the fore front of global Medical Device R&D.
So what opportunities do exist for those looking to retrain or re-skill? Considerable and varied opportunities exist for those with Research and Product Development, Regulatory, Quality, Technical and supporting skills in Sales and customer support-particularly those candidates with European and Asian language skills.
Jackie Brown is keen to talk with those seeking career moves or those with existing medical device manufacturing industry experience as we move into another year of anticpated high growth in recruitment within the medical and life science industries.
In the mean time, to all those looking for a career move or seeking new opportunities we wish you a Happy and prosperous New Year in 2010.
Tags: 2010, Baxter Healthcare, FDI, KCI, Life Science Jobs, Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Medical Jobs, Merit Medical, Product Development, QARA, R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Research, Technical Jobs, Teleflex
Posted in Medical Devices, Medical Jobs, Medical Products, Medical Recruitment, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Monday, December 7th, 2009
Dont let Ebenezer Lenihan Ruin your Christmas
Twas a few days before the budget, and all around the house, Nothing stirred, not even a mouse….
What festive cuts can we expect this year and what will it all mean for you and I? Christmas… Bah Humbug!
Assuming that we don’t all get looted while the law is on strike, we can assume that we will all be a bit worse off, but we were expecting that. Life will be a bit more of a struggle and, if we were to believe the general theme of the press, one could be forgiven for thinking that this may well be the last Christmas ever - such are the prevailing prophecies of doom for our little isle.
I for one do not think that that the level of doom and gloom is warranted. I’m fed up of people saying that it’s going to be an awful Christmas. Have people forgotten what it’s all about? Did the Celtic Tiger take away our sense of magic? Santa may well be affected by the budget too and his gifts may be more frugal. Does that make him any less wonderful than I remember him from my own childhood?
In recruitment we have seen an upturn. It is not a huge one, but it is an upturn never the less. Businesses know that if they are not growing and finding new ways to do business better than their competitors, then they are not going to pull through. The point some people seem to be missing is that a large percentage of our businesses have been through recessions before. They have the experience to know what is required to pull through it.
All you nurses, doctors and other medical staff know that you are going to be in demand. Nursing was a popular career choice during the 80’s when nursing offered security above and beyond that of other careers. With the Celtic Tiger came a feeling of entitlement. If the country is so rich, where is the share for the front line workers? But that has changed again. Now there is nothing. Nothing? There is security in a career that will always be in existence, you will always be needed.
It holds true for all medical staff. Science careers are also more assured than most. Ireland is putting considerable resources into maintaining and indeed accelerating R+D investment. Simple economics are at play here (the type that even I have no problem understanding). More exports = More money coming into the country. This is the best way of increasing a countries wealth. So to get more revenue in we need to export. Develop and sell. The multi-nationals have a huge part to play here too. They create jobs and even with the tax breaks available to them, they contribute to this land of ours through taxes.
In the 80’s we lost huge numbers of our skilled workforce abroad. Now, with fewer opportunities in far away lands, we have a wealth of people right here. If we can tap into our own resources we may just find that we are in a better position than we were back in the days of bad hair styles and leg warmers.
Enough of the bah humbugs! Let us make merry with what we have and work hard at creating a more affluent new year!
Tags: Celtic Tiger, Create Jobs, doctors, Festive Cuts on the way, Front line workers, Last Christmas...ever, Leg Warmers, looted, Make Merry, Medical Staff, nurses, Prophecies of Doom, R&D, Science Careers, Simple economics, Skilled workforce, Tax Breaks
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Medical Devices Manufacturing R&D continues to seek high caliber candidates
Follow the money! A maxim often quoted in recruitment when looking for the areas of activity where recruitment is taking place. At present it certainly appears that the medical device manufacturing industry is ploughing ahead in new Research and Investment Projects across Ireland.
Where as the beleagured construction industry is rapidly faling into decline and infrastructure is imminently due for winddown, medical devices continues to expand and grow as a major contributor to the Irish economy.
In terms of world class R&D competition, Ireland is in the top ten leagues of countries with a major R&D presence usually a prime indicator of strategic importance of where multinational medical device manufacturers see value and where they tend to carry out serial reinvestment at multiple sites and in new products.
Boston Scientific and Abbotts are just two examples that spring to mind and some of the most significant investors in terms of R&D and employment in Ireland Inc.
Recruiting in this area requires an active involvement in the industry and an understanding of the requirements of client companies operating in this sector. The demand for high caliber candidates continues to support a range of medical device manufacturing clients and sees an increasing continuing future demand for high end skills and services for R&D Managers, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing and Quality professionals amongst others. Long may it continue.
Tags: Abbotts, Boston Scientific, Candidates, Clients, Engineers, Follow the money, Irish Economy, Irish Industry, J&J, Manufacturing, Medical Device Jobs, Medical Devices Manufacturing, Polymer Engineers, Quality Assurance, R&D, recruitment, Regulatory Affairs, Research and Investment, Science Jobs, Scientists, Technicians
Posted in Medical Devices, Medical Jobs, Medical Recruitment | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Social Networks sites like Face Book and Twitter continue to grow
Facebook is taking up more space at the docklands as news comes of a further 70 jobs being created in the social networking sites head quarters based in the heart of the Dublin Docklands.
These badley needed new jobs are being created in engineering, sales and finance and are further testament to the growth in social network sites as previously discussed on this blog.
Facebook is based in California and has over 300 million members and over a million members here in Ireland. Those stats alone are seriously worth considering for Irish Medical Recruitment Agencies looking to tap into the current talent pool in Ireland and abroad.
Small wonder that as previously discussed on this blog, social networks are clearly percieved to be the way forward in future recruitment. Indicative of this were the comments of facebook’s CEO, Sheryl Sandberg, who said at the company’s video presentation yesterday, that the company had not really considered anywhere else other than Ireland because of the number of qualified people here in Ireland.
Ireland has seen a considerable increase in numbers of highly qualified medical, science and R&D professionals looking for jobs in the fields of Medicine, Science, Research and Development and the recruitment for these jobs is moving further away from traditional jobs boards to the universally available mediums of social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Heres to a brighter more social future.
Tags: CEO, Compliance Manager, Engineering, Engineers, Facebook, Finance, IT Jobs, Jackie Brown Medical, LinkedIn, Medical Jobs, Medicine Jobs, Moulding Engineers, QA/QC, Qualified Engineers, R&D, R&D Research and Development, Regulatory Affairs, Research and Development, Science Jobs, Science Recruitment Agency, Social Networks, Talent aquisition, Twitter
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
High Value Jobs are still being attracted to and being created in Ireland
Its not all bad news on the jobs market. IDA Ireland have announced in the past month alone a number of new expansion and investments by major multinational clients involved in Pharmaceutical manufacturing, R&D, software production, customer and financial services who will be creating several hundred science jobs over the next five years.
Granted there have been job losses too; but these are high value jobs that continue to be created, are in the knowledge economy where long term investment is crucial as these attract additional support positions and are generally indicative of long term rather than short term commitment by MNC’s.
This is borne out by more and more multinational firms who have decided to set up their research and development departments in Ireland, again a key indicator of long term confidence and future commitment.
Medical Device Manufacturing and advanced manufacturing firms employing plastics/ polymer, manufacturing and life science engineers for the biopharma industry continue to recruit which can be attested by the high levels of activity within the Irish Recruitment agency market especially those catering for Medical and R&D Jobs.
Tags: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Customer Service, High Value Jobs, Irish agency, Irish Recruitment Agency, Knowledge economy, Life Science, Logistics Manager, Manufacturing Engineer, Medical Jobs, Miantenance tech, Mnaufacturing Mnaager Jobs, Mnaufacturing Tech Jobs, Multinational Jobs, pharmaceutical jobs, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Jobs, Plastics, Polymer Engineer, Process Engineer, QA/QC, R&D, recruitment agency, Research, Research and Development, Rsearch & Development, Science Jobs, Supply Chain, Systems Engineer
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Further Investment by Pfizer in R&D at their Cork facility confirms Ireland as being a competitive and attractive site
Ireland still continues to attract Foreign Direct Investment
for foreign direct investment. Over €11 Million is being invested at the Ringaskiddy Process Development Center (PDC) plant.
This facility will be a center for research and development centering on advanced manufacturing and enhanced production techniques which will be utilsed at Pfizer plants globally. Technologies developed here will have the potential to drastically reduce associated costs for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) as a result of optimising and improving on current manufacturing systems in use.
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Tags: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, API, Chemists, Cork Jobs, enhanced manufacturing, FDI, Foreign Direct Investment, Healthcare, Industrial Engineers, Ireland, Irish Agencies, Irish Jobs, Irish Pharmaceutical Jobs, Manufacturing Jobs, Medical Jobs, new jobs, Optimising Cost Reduction, Pfizer, Pfizer Jobs, Pharmaceutical Manufacture, Process Engineers, Process Improvement, Production, R&D, recruitment, recruitment agency, recruitment process, Research Facility, Ringaskiddy, Scientists, Technology
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
R&D
The preeminence of R&D at UCD is very much in evidence and globally renown. Despite the shortcomings of the current government and its recent track record on the economy, its long term investment strategy in relation to R&D appears to be on target. €14.8m is being invested over the next five years in the Systems Biology Ireland Research Centre and will be centered at the UCD campus, already home to NIBRT, (National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training).
It is hoped that this will make Ireland a leader in the consolidation of computing, maths and biology and will further enhance Ireland’s attractiveness as a site of foreign direct investment for the future as this state of the art computing center will considerably promote Ireland as a significant R&D center of expertise and scientific research in addition to being a major scientific contributor in the fight against cancer and various other life threatening medical conditions
Adding to the attractiveness of NIBRT’s direct industrial applications and capabilities potential, the consolidation of computer modeling and study of biological systems offers a similar appeal to R&D clients. Collectively these will present considerable marketing advantages for Ireland as a center for foreign direct investment and offers enhanced potential for collaborative projects which can only improve Ireland’s already excellent reputation for world class scientific and engineering professionalism.
For more news on developments and employment opportunities in science and technolgy in Ireland, please visit our news and jobs pages
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Wafer Fab Technician at Work
The Appliance Of Science by Irish Engineers and Scientists is not to be underestimated and should be a beacon to those who have followed in their wake. More so today in a time where jobs have been outsourced to cheaper locations overseas for example from manufacturers such as Dell who have recently outsourced from Limerick to Lodz in Poland.
In the past year alone, Ireland has had the misfortune of seeing large numbers of jobs outsourced to low cost economies in Eastern Europe and Asia. Undoubtedly we have not seen the end of these events and perhaps this is symptomatic of a maturing economy and a further reason to develop a more cohesive strategy of moving toward a knowledge based economy that offers greater numbers of high end / value jobs.
To this end on a more positive note we have seen investment flowing into Ireland by a number of Multinationals who have decided to base their R&D centers here. Intel, Diageo, Pfizer, Boston Scientific and Hewlett Packhard to name a few have all announced plans to establish or expand existing research facilities which encouragingly are not focused in any one sector but are diversified into almost every high tech sector ranging from nano robotics, polymer sciences, medical devices, semiconductors, biopharma and advanced manufacturing systems.
Irish scientists have been at the fore front of scientific research following in the footsteps of Robert Boyle, the father of chemistry, George Boole, the father of computer science, Francis Beaufort, author of the Beaufort scale. There are no shortage of gifted, inteligent scientists in Ireland today and it is a compliment to our educational system that Ireland globally, is well represented across all fields of modern scientific research and development
Modern Irish Scientists and Engineers are developing and applying scientific principles to all aspects of Industry that will someday provide the nucleus of high end manufacturing facilities that will anchor employment in Ireland and provide jobs for our graduates ensuring we do not experience the brain drain that hitherto has been experienced as a result of limited job opportunities for locally educated graduates and professionals.
For further news and information on opportunities as they develop please feel free to visit our Jobs Pages
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