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entegro announces 50 jobs for Ireland

Written by Robert McHugh, on 24th Sep 2020. Posted in Technology

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Telecommunications specialists entegro have announced plans to set up a Design Support Centre in Poland creating 20 new jobs and to recruit 50 additional staff in Ireland over the coming year, bringing new hires to over 100 within 12 months alone.

The wholly-Irish owned firm has grown from 80 staff since entegro was launched in October 2019 to 150 today and further growth is projected by 2022. The entegro engineering team, based at entegro’s Centre of Excellence in Kilkenny city, is currently surveying across Carlow and Kilkenny and engineers are also deployed further afield to Tipperary town, Castlebar, Sligo, Longford and Leitrim.

In addition to their work underway on a national level, entegro is also heavily involved in major projects in the UK and further afield. The company’s expansion into Poland will also support works in Kilkenny and help meet the global demand for digital networks services. The new hub is expected to be up and running in the coming months.

An additional 50 new posts will also be created on the island of Ireland to meet growing demand from projects in Ireland and abroad. These include ongoing survey and design contract works for the National Broadband Plan (NBP) network rollout as well as work on the Fibrus Northern Ireland project for the design and delivery of fibre infrastructure throughout the six counties. 

The full deployment of the National Broadband Plan will take 5-7 years and will involve constructing approximately 146,000km of fibre cable to connect over 1 million people in the 537,000 homes, farms, schools and businesses in the roll-out area.

Commenting on the expansion, CEO of entegro, Jim Doyle said, "As a business, we are delighted to be involved in the delivery of such an ambitious and vital project as the National Broadband Plan. It will provide much-needed, future- proofed connectivity in rural Ireland. Through the NBI contract and ongoing work with existing clients such as Virgin Media IE, Siro, Fibrus NI, Cityfibre UK and Century Link US we are helping people to work remotely and we are sustaining jobs locally."

He added, "COVID has presented challenges but the entire entegro team has really stepped up to the mark and without their professionalism, hard work and teamwork, our continued success and growth would not have been possible."

Source: www.businessworld.ie

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