HP’s Expansion in Ireland welcomed by IDA Ireland

HP’s investment in Ireland shows our capacity to provide an increasingly competitive business friendly environment in which technology companies can grow and develop  Barry O'Leary, CEO, IDA Ireland

DUBLIN, 4th March 2010 – The announcement by HP, one of Ireland’s largest multinational companies, that it is to create 60 new jobs at its Global Solutions Centre in Belfield, Dublin has been welcomed by IDA Ireland. HP is consolidating its European operations at its facility in Belfield, to provide high level technical support to its customer base across Northern Europe and the Benelux countries. 

Commenting on the announcement, IDA Ireland CEO, Barry O’Leary said “The decision by HP, a leading global technology company, to expand in Ireland is evidence of the growing importance of services, particularly IT services. This is a key part of the IDA Horizon 2020 Strategy to significantly grow services employment. HP’s investment in Ireland shows our capacity to provide an increasingly competitive business friendly environment in which technology companies can grow and develop”.

The new roles are in the area of first line support to customers, on-site engineers, partners and distributors and the company is seeking to recruit individuals with the necessary technical experience and language capabilities (fluency in English and one other relevant European language) to service the operation. 

HP has over 4,000 people employed across its core business groups in Leixlip, Dublin, Galway and Belfast.  This announcement today from HP, follows on from recent expansion announcements at its operation in Ireland with the creation of the Global Services Desk in March 2009, creating 500 jobs and the expansion of the company’s Galway operation in September, with the creation of 50 jobs.    

Martin Murphy, Managing Director of HP Ireland said: “Today’s announcement underlines HP’s commitment to the Irish market and further embeds our operations here. We are also encouraged by the fact that Ireland is making some positive inroads in terms of wage and salary competitiveness thus resulting in greater ability to vie for these types of positions.

However, we are relentless in our continuing message that we are at a critical turning point in this country and that there is still significant scope for improvement to national competitiveness so that we can continue to grow in this market and to protect multinational industry that has located here.”   

Martin Murphy added “There has been much debate over the past number of days on the Irish education system. We echo some of these sentiments; however, we continue to be encouraged by the calibre of Irish graduates who have the necessary humanities and technical skills to fill the types of roles created.  In essence, having the necessary fluency in varied European languages is as important today as ever.”

Recruitment of the 60 positions commences this week with advertisements appearing across national press.  They are full time permanent positions with health and pension benefits. For recruitment enquiries, please contact: Lindsay.Smith@hp.com.

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