Consulting engineering group, RPS, is opening a new office in Kilkenny.
The new regional base at Kilkenny Enterprise Centre, Purcellsinch, will run alongside its other existing locations in Dun Laoghaire, Cork, Galway and Sligo.
The business, which counts among its clients companies like Uisce Éireann, TII, Iarnród Éireann, EirGrid and local authorities currently employs 470 staff nationally and a further 295 in Northern Ireland.
"We are an engineering and project management company, but our biggest project is ourselves. We work tirelessly on our structure," said Willie Madden, Managing Director of RPS.
"We have always encouraged the flexibility to move if your circumstances change, and setting up a nationwide hub network of smaller and more agile offices is our way of being responsive and meeting the real needs of our employees."
"The Kilkenny office, for example, serves as a hub for staff living in this general area and otherwise commuting to Dublin and Cork several days a week."
"It is something that staff appreciate, and we hope to open up a market in the south east area and attract new recruits as a result."
It comes as RPS secures over €30m worth of new engineering design contracts.
These include the Metrolink advanced works, the new Eastern Garvoge Bridge in Sligo and a scheme on the A66 Trans-Pennine roads project in the North of England.
Founded as MCOS in the 1960s, RPS was recently acquired by Tetra Tech, a global provider of consulting and engineering services with 27,000 employees worldwide.
