The corporate is presently engaged on a number of strategic electrical energy transmission, distribution and fibre broadband tasks.

These embody working with SIRO, the three way partnership between ESB and Vodafone, on the roll-out of the subsequent section of its fibre broadband community throughout Eire.

General, 60 of the 150 new roles will help this venture, which can see SIRO’s fibre broadband community attain 154 cities throughout Eire and supply Gigabit broadband connectivity to 770,000 premises throughout the subsequent 4 years.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar stated: “That is nice information from Gaeltec, creating 150 new jobs, primarily in Kilkenny with some alternatives nationwide.

“It’s an actual enhance in our capability to construct essential infrastructure, equivalent to broadband.

“Sixty of those jobs will likely be on SIRO’s new venture, upgrading hundreds of their clients throughout the nation to fibre broadband.” 

The agency’s managing director, Joao Felizardo stated: “To facilitate the expansion, Gaeltec is making a 0.75m euro funding in additional improvement of its headquarters in Kilkenny.

“We’re actually enthusiastic about having 150 extra folks, who share our values and ambition, be a part of us throughout the subsequent thrilling stage of Gaeltec’s improvement.” 

The roles on supply embody junior and senior engineering positions, discipline surveyors, fibre technicians, GIS technicians, supervisors, designers, electricians and plant operators.

The positions will likely be based mostly primarily in Gaeltec’s Kilkenny and Dublin workplaces, however a quantity, equivalent to website workers will likely be based mostly on tasks positioned nationwide.