Recruitment

It’s the famous jobs market catch-22 – how do you get engineering experience when you don’t have engineering experience. The problem can be frustrating as roles that don’t require experience are hard to find, very competitive, and difficult to secure. Plus, the experience you typically need is in a real work situation. In other words, …

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A Control Systems Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing solutions that control dynamic systems. Dynamic systems are systems that constantly change. The aim of a Control Systems Engineer is to bring stability to these constantly changing systems to produce the desired outcome. It is a field of engineering that is wide and varied. …

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Many engineering companies and other employers already have Graduate Engineer vacancies posted on their websites. If you secure one of these roles, you most likely won’t begin your employment until after you complete your degree in summer 2019. In other words, there is a long lead-in time for many graduate roles. If you are not …

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A recent article in the Independent featured the headline: “Forget Dublin’s Silicon Docks…Going west means tech can offer lifestyles as well as work”. It mentioned Limerick and Galway before stating: “Now Sligo is coming up the ranks as a place to build a career, and home to game-changing tech developments.” Of course, this is bang …

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There is hardly a month that goes by that we don’t hear a significant jobs announcement for the Galway region. Crucially, many of the announcements are for highly paid jobs in engineering, the IT sector, and other industries. In other words, if you are an engineer, there are excellent career opportunities in the Galway region. …

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One of the most in-demand jobs in Ireland at the moment is Validation Engineering. The demand for this engineering specialty is driven by the strong pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing industries that are in the country. Modern regulations both here in Europe, in the US, and elsewhere in the world mean Validation Engineers are crucial …

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Are you looking for your next engineering career move? Do you want to advance your career or take on a new challenge? Do you want to move out of Dublin for a better quality of life or do you want to return to Ireland after working abroad? Are you thinking of moving to Ireland? Here …

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There are lots of best practice guidelines you should follow when creating or refining an engineering CV and cover letter. One tip that will improve both documents, however, is to add personality to them. Showing hard skills is an essential requirement of any CV but this can be easier to summarise as it includes the …

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Health and safety is a field that is going through a period of change from an essential but often disliked box-ticking exercise to something seen as an essential part of the core makeup of a business. Businesses now see the way they manage health and safety as being a representation of the business as a …

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Ireland’s MedTech sector is thriving. It already employs 38,000 people here plus, when you look at the figures on a per capita basis, Ireland has the second largest number of MedTech professionals in Europe. The sector exports €12.6 billion worth of products every year to more than 100 countries. In addition, nine of the top …

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What do you do when you feel like your engineering career has stalled? This was the topic of a question that Emer Feeney answered in last week’s Sunday Independent. Emer is an HR Generalist here at SL Controls. You can read the full article here. Emer answered the question by giving eight smart tips on …

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Making the transition from life as a college student to working a full-time job is sometimes difficult in the early months. This particularly applies to those who go straight to college from secondary school. Not everyone follows this route, of course, so have a considerably different experience. One example is Raymond O’Shea, a Graduate Controls …

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Industry 4.0 involves digitalising manufacturing and business processes to create Smart Factories. The objectives are to increase productivity, improve efficiency, and develop new sales opportunities. It offers opportunities for your career too. Importantly, we are only at the beginning of Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution. In fact, when we use the term Smart Factory, …

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The projects and solutions we deliver for clients at SL Controls require very particular skillsets. This includes controls, validation, and automation engineering skills, as well as skills in the emerging discipline of equipment systems engineer. We take on engineers at all levels, from graduates to project managers, but it’s important we get the right people. …

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Do you hope to graduate with an engineering degree over the next few months? If so, Eamon Davern’s story will be of interest to you. In less than a year, he went from being a graduate engineer just out of college to a field systems engineer travelling Europe and the rest of the world. SL …

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You don’t have to look very far to see that Limerick is currently one of Ireland’s regional success stories. A quick search shows a steady stream of investment announcements, job announcements, development plans, and more. There is also a buzz in the city as well as expectations for the future. Much work needs to be …

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At SL Controls, our engineers get the opportunity to work on a variety of projects for a vast range of clients. In fact, this is one of the key attractions of the job for many on our team. By working on different projects for different clients, they get to experience new technologies, machines, equipment, business …

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Everyone wants to have a stable career. This means a career that gives you personal and professional satisfaction. It also means having a career you are proud of, as well as one that progresses at a rate and in a direction that suits you. So how do you achieve engineering career stability? The specific answer …

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If you are a controls engineer or validation engineer, there are lots of locations around Ireland where you can find employment. Why should you choose SL Controls and why should you work in the Limerick office? The team in our Limerick office includes engineers with family connections to Limerick and those that don’t. They choose …

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Mental health is as important an issue in Irish workplaces as physical health. At SL Controls, we believe it is essential to promote a positive and supportive culture around mental health, which is why we started Think Well at SL. Think Well at SL is our in-house mental health programme that runs alongside its sister …

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Relocating for your career is a major undertaking, particularly if you are not familiar with the new location you are moving to. For SL Controls Field Engineer Dominic Linden, it was a whirlwind involving three months of training and working in several different countries while also getting settled in his new home – Ireland. Dominic …

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Did you know SL Controls has very low levels of staff turnover, particularly in engineering roles? There are lots of reasons for this including the range of clients and diverse technologies that our engineers work on. This makes the work exciting, always interesting, and you get to continuously gain experience and develop new skills. The …

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At SL Controls, we believe it is important to reward the effort, ambition, innovativeness, commitment, and hard work of our employees. We have always done this through management recognition, salary packages, our careers pathways programme, and more. We have now launched another initiative – TOTALrewards TOTALrewards is a formal rewards and recognition programme focussed on …

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SL Controls has launched a calendar of workplace wellbeing events for 2018 as part of the Live Well at SL and Think Well at SL programmes. Live Well at SL is an initiative by the company to promote good physical health among employees in the workplace, while Think Well at SL promotes good mental health …

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Writing cover letters is part of applying for jobs, but it’s a part that job seekers often neglect. Many people spend a lot of time perfecting their CV and tailoring it for the job they are applying to, only to then hurriedly throw together an engineering cover letter. Cover letters don’t need to take you …

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Leaving Ireland to find work and improve your level of experience is a great move for many people, including engineers. You get to immerse yourself in a new culture and expand your horizons. You might also have moved because of the economic difficulties Ireland faced around 10 years ago. What about now? If you come …

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In 2004, Robert O’Hanlon had just left school, was working part-time in an electrical wholesaler, and was trying to get someone to take him on as an apprentice electrician. Travel was not something he did regularly. Fast forward 13 years to now and he travels Europe and elsewhere in the world as lead field engineer …

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If you saw two job openings with similar descriptions, one for a large multinational corporation and the other for a small Irish business with about 100 employees, which would you think was the better opportunity? Here are nine compelling reasons why the small company is the better option. 1. Small Companies Are More Flexible, Agile, …

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Most people working as an engineer in Ireland or elsewhere in the world follow the traditional career route – get an engineering degree, find employment, advance your career, and, often, obtain post-graduate degrees and other qualifications. This applies to SL Controls as much as it does in other engineering companies – most of our team …

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