Latest 8,800 Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Job Announcements for Ireland
By: Donagh Fitzgerald and Claire Wilson. Last Updated: Jan 2023
Ireland’s pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing industries have seen excellent growth over the last few years.
This growth has, of course, led to many companies looking to hire more staff. It can be difficult to keep track of which companies are still in the process of recruiting for these announcements so we thought we’d do it for you!
Our Irish Job Announcement List
The page contains a list of expansion plans and job announcements from 2021 to December 2022 that are recruiting or will be recruiting till 2027. The links here are to news articles to let you see details of the announcements. To follow up, visit the company career pages or contact them directly. You can find a complete list of links to company career pages on our List of 180 Pharmaceutical & Med Device Companies and this Table of 212 Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Factories in Ireland Organised by County.
We’ll be updating this page regularly so check back every so often to see new announcements!
Ulster
- Almac announced 1,000 new jobs for Nothern Ireland
- Abbott to bring 1,000 jobs to Kilkenny and Donegal
Munster
- AbbVie to create 70 jobs in Cork with €60m investment
- Bausch + Lomb to invest €90m in Waterford creating 130 jobs
- Boston Scientific to create 70 new jobs in Cork
- Edwards Lifesciences announces 250 new jobs for Limerick
- Eli Lilly plant to create 300 jobs in Limerick
- GE Healthcare to create 140 Cork jobs from new €30.5m production line
- Horizon Therapeutics announce 350 new jobs for Waterford
- J&J investment in Limerick to create up to 200 jobs
- J&J to expand Limerick site plans to create 80 jobs
- Janssen investment to create up to 180 jobs
- New MeiraGTx biotech facility in Shannon could create up to 300 jobs
- Merck announces €440m investment in Cork, creating 370 new jobs
- Stryker opens 3D printing facility in Ireland, promising 600 new jobs
- Takumi to create 60 jobs in Limerick
- Medical device firm Vitalograph creating 200 jobs in Clare and Limerick
Leinster
- Antylia Scientific to create 60 jobs in Mullingar
- Abbott to bring 1,000 jobs to Kilkenny and Donegal
- Alexion/Astra Zeneca announced 100 jobs at their facility in Dublin.
- Automatic Plastics company’s expansion to create 80 new jobs
- Pharma company Grifols to create 200 new jobs at its Dublin site
- MSD to create 240 jobs in Meath
- MSD aims to create more than 100 jobs at Carlow facility
- Normax Biomed to create 200 jobs at planned Dublin site.
- Pfizer to invest over $1.26 billion in 500 Irish jobs boost
- Takeda creates 100 jobs in Dublin in €36m investment
- Technimark’s €26m Longford investment will create 80 medical manufacturing jobs
- WuXi Vaccines investment to bring 200 additional jobs to Dundalk
- Zoetis announced 100 jobs at its site in Tullamore
Connacht
- Galway-based Aerogen to hire 500 as inhaler is used in China’s Covid-booster programme
- Aran Biomedical creating 150 jobs in Co Galway
- Medtech firm Arrotek to create 100 jobs in Sligo
- US firm Biomerics to create 40 jobs in Galway
- Boston Scientific to create 300 jobs with €100m investment in Galway plant
- ICS Medical Devices Plans 100 New Hires
- Integer to add up to 200 jobs as it expands Galway operations
- Medtronic to create 200 new jobs at Galway facility
- Meissner Filtration Products €95m. expansion to create 250 new jobs
We hope you find this list useful and wish you luck with your job hunt!
We are continually updating this page and try hard to keep this information as accurate as possible. But if you know of a company we’ve missed or see data that needs correction, please contact us.
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About the Authors
Donagh Fitzgerald
Head of Marketing & Product Development
Mechanical/Production Engineer
Donagh looks after the marketing and product development including the training and pedagogical elements of our programs and makes sure that all GetReskilled’s users can have a great online learning experience. Donagh has lived and worked in many countries including Ireland, America, the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan where he managed to pick up the language. Donagh has also served as the Program Manager for the Farmleigh Fellowship based out of Singapore.
Donagh holds Degrees in Production Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from South East Technological University, Ireland.
Claire Wilson
Content Marketing and Career Coaching
Claire runs GetReskilled’s Advanced Career Coaching Programme – our specially devised job hunting course that helps our trainees take that final step into employment by leading them through the job hunting process. She is extremely enthusiastic about helping people reach their final goal of employment in their new career path.
Claire has a BSc (Hons) in Medical Biology from Edinburgh University and spent 7 years working in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.