75 new jobs have been announced at two Dublin companies which are receiving support from Enterprise Ireland.
OpenJaw Technologies, which provides online retail technology and services to the travel industry, is to create 45 new jobs over the next two years. In addition, it will invest €3.3m in a research and development programme being backed by Enterprise Ireland.
The new OpenJaw jobs will be mainly in sales, engineering, development and product management, and will be located in Dublin and Galway. This will bring the total number of people employed by the company in Ireland to 151 by 2013 and its global workforce to 169 over the same period.
Information security and services company Sysnet Global Solutions is to invest €1.34m in a research and development programme. This will see the company create 30 new jobs in Dublin and eight in its overseas network by 2014.
The new jobs will bring total employment in Sysnet in Ireland to 111 by 2014 and global employment to 135 by the same date.
Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation Minister Richard Bruton made the announcement as he visited both companies' headquarters today.
Dutch firm to add jobs after Irish move
A Dutch-based company is planning to create more than 20 jobs over the next three years following its entry into the Irish market.
ATS International, which provides technology for manufacturing companies, has acquired Cork company OceanModus. The new Cork-based Irish business, to be known as ATS Ireland, plans to add the jobs to service its Irish and international customers.
OceanModus has customers in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. The co-founders of OceanModus, Desmond Savage and Thomas Wyczawski, will become directors of the new Irish business.
The company is mainly looking to hire manufacturing engineers with experience of software implementation. The project has been supported by the Cork City Enterprise Board.
