Pharma company Shire is to create 400 new jobs in Meath over the next four years.
The new jobs will be based at a new, state of the art biologics manufacturing campus, which the company intends to build on a 120 acre site at Piercetown, County Meath.
The roles at Shire’s new campus in County Meath will consist of highly skilled, full time jobs in the areas of R&D, operations, technical staff, engineering and construction.
The expansion is part of an investment of US$400 million in Ireland to meet rapidly growing demand for Shire’s innovative products.
Shire’s Senior Vice President of Technical Operations, Tim Kelly, commented
“The expansion supports our manufacturing strategy to develop and provide innovative specialty medicines for patients. Ireland is a strategically important location for Shire, providing both excellence in life science R&D and manufacturing.
We already have a strong team on the ground in Ireland and believe that it is the right location for us to build a new state of the art facility which will complement our existing manufacturing operations in the US.”
Construction of the new site will begin in mid-2016 with the site expected to be operational by mid-2019.
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