L-r: Eoin O’Brien, Jacobs; Damien Owens, Engineers Ireland; Emelia Cole, Mitch Tunikowski, Justine Butler, Maurice Gillen and Niamh Dorgan, Jacobs, with the award.
Jacobs has been awarded Engineers Ireland’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Accredited Employer Standard.
Employing around 1,300 experts across Dublin, Cork and Belfast, the company is the largest provider of engineering, procurement, construction management and commissioning services on the island of Ireland.
The CPD Accredited Employer Standard is designed to help organisations improve the competence of their engineering professionals, developing employees who are agile and adaptable, creating a workforce that is encouraged to create and innovate, and develop new solutions. Organisations that have achieved the Standard may find they are better placed to deal with change and disruption, while also being capable of attracting and retaining talent.
Jacobs has been a key partner in national economic development since opening its first international office in Dublin in 1974. In that time, it has supported the delivery of more than €50 billion in critical infrastructure. Projects in Ireland include BusConnects Cork and Dublin, as well as EirGrid’s electricity transmission transformation programme and major life sciences developments across Munster and Leinster. The organisation recently completed the Engineering, Procurement & Construction Management (EPCM) for the first phase of a major new biotech campus in Munster, with work now underway on the second phase.