Posts Tagged ‘R&D Jobs’

New Jobs in Irish Nanoscience Research?

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Nanoscience gets funding

Nanoscience gets funding

New Jobs in Irish Nanoscience Research?

Nanoscience research institute CRANN is to create new jobs in Research & Development, leading research projects including cancer research and computer chips.

The majority of these seventeen newly created  positions are to be in the Institute of Molecular Medicine and TCD School of Medicine in conjunction with CRANN. This particular team will be aiming at nanomedical technology in the early diagnosis of cancer.

The remaining 5 positions are to be with Intel as CRANN focuses on developing computer chips for the next generation.
Professor John Boland, Director of CRANN says “Ireland is now globally recognised for it’s expertise in the area of nanoscience, as evidenced by the large amounts of non-exchequer funding we are winning through competitive international research projects.” He goes on to say “Research is a global competition and we need to contuinue to develop our knowledge base and expertise to make Ireland a true innovation centre”

The investment was seen as a “huge vote of confidence” by Professor Dermot Kelleher of TCD School of Medicine.

Green Light for Green Jobs

Monday, October 12th, 2009
A Mechanical Commissioning Engineer ensures his harness in safely in place.

A Mechanical Commissioning Engineer ensures his harness in safely in place.

Good morning and welcome to My science jobs with news that we have a green light for green jobs.

Recently at the IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology) symposium, the Irish government with the backing of Major Multinationals such as Intel and Microsoft and supported by sustainable Energy Ireland, have made a commitment to drive greater resources into the Smart economy.

In paticular this will be in the areas of Green IT and Green Tech jobs.

This commitment will include:-

Ensuring the supply of  highly skilled talent and the supply of high achieving graduates up to Phd level.

Investing heavily in research and development and enhancing the environment between Academic and market facing commercial interests.

Implementation of a “Green Deal” and moving towards Green Renewable Energies and away from Fossil fuel energy programs.

Promoting Green Collar jobs and Green Enterprise.

Within the Green Collar Jobs sector there are a number of employment possibilities covering such aspects as energy production as well as conservation not simply related to areas such as wind turbine manufacture. Opportunities here exist for a wide variety of professional engineers such as:- Precision Tooling Engineers, Toolmakers, Mechanical, Electrical, Automation and Manufacturing Engineers.

R&D carried out in Ireland has also led to the development and manufacture of micro turbines that can produce electrical energy in even the smallest of wind environments and as a result have made them cheaper to manufacture and increasingly attractive to a wider range of customers both domestic as well as commercial. The implications for the marketing and sale of these devices and the possibility for increases in employment growth is therefore significant.

Here we can see opportunities for Moulding Engineers, Project Managers and Project Engineers in addition to Systems and Telecommunications Engineers

Additionally,  in areas such as inteligent lighting systems that detect the level of ambient light and switch of lights when they are not needed. These specific inteligent public lighting systems are already in operation in Germany and are being looked at with keen interest by Intel who have been quick to see their application globally, these too are manufactured here in Ireland.

Again we have seen there has bene an increase in the demand for manufacturing, QA/QC, Mechanical and Tooling Engineers as well as Project Managers, Mechanical and Electrical Technicians, Equipment Engineers, Schedulers and Planners as demand is expected to increase.

Green Tech and Green Research & Development  then offers considerable long term employment prospects for native Irish  engineering talent. For further information on Green jobs in the green technology and Green R&D jobs, stay tuned or visit Jackie Brown Medical for further recruitment opportunities in a host of new technology sectors such as Medical Device jobs, Manufacturing jobs, Engineering jobs and science jobs.

Quality Versus Quantity

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Good Manufacturing Practice-Consistent Quality

Good Manufacturing Practice-Consistent Quality

Quality versus Quantity used to be a dilemma faced by manufacturers faced by the dual consideration of competition and the diminishing return on investment after cost ie profits.

More precisely,  manufacturers of goods would consider how do you increase profits when you are facing increased competition and increasing numbers of competitors eating into your market share? Do you increase production and hope to swamp your competitors with lower cost items that you can charge less for and therefore increase your market share - or do you produce better high quality items which you can charge more for and thus get more for less and also retain and grow a loyal customer base who will trust your product over the oppositions cheaper and possibly less reliable product.

Myscience jobs considers the question  as now largely rhetorical. Quality wins out every time.

Today Quality Control and Quality Assurance is a major consideration for all Irish high tech manufacturing from medical devices through to semiconductors and pharmaceutical products. Irish manufacturing is performed to  World Class Manufacturing environment standards  including BS, ISO, FDA, and GMP.

None of the billions of investment that have been spent would have been done so if these standards could not be guaranteed to be maintained and improved as they have been by Quality Managers, Engineers and technicians who police and maintain  them, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in manufacturing plants, R&D facilities, Design consultancies and practices through out Ireland.

Needless to say, there remains today, a significant number of  scientfic, engineering and manufacturing jobs open to Quality professionals encompassing all the above sectors despite the economic downturn, which will endure and expand in the years ahead as clients and customers continue to demand quality over quantity.

For quality jobs in medical device manufacture, R&D, Plastics, engineering and science, consider Jackie Brown Medical where quality counts in recruitment for Quality Jobs.