Dairymaster, the dairy equipment manufacturer, is to add over 20 new positions to its headquarters in Causeway, Co Kerry. Spread across the company’s engineering, manufacturing, marketing, research and development (R&D) and veterinary science operations, the company said that the roles offered employees the chance to test their skills in a highly competitive sector. “We're making this announcement [at this time of year] quite deliberately,” said Dr Edmond Harty, CEO and technical director, Dairymaster. “With so many people having been home for the holidays, we think this is a great opportunity for them to learn of roles that match their skills available for them here in Ireland. Not only that, but they’d be in the incomparable county of Kerry – and that means beautiful countryside, low cost of living and no traffic jams.” This is the fourth time Dairymaster has conducted a recruitment campaign around Christmas and the New Year. Each time, it has proved successful in attracting high quality people to their operations. To support its engineering and manufacturing operations, Dairymaster is planning to hire design engineers, quality and ‘lean’ engineers, building design engineers, material engineers and also some dairy technical support engineers. On the customer relations and marketing front, it is hiring international sales & marketing executives, with Japanese and Russian language skills; a marketing executive to operate in the UK; sales support executives; web developers and marketing technologists, as well as technical communications engineers who will focus on the producing manuals that its farming customers can use. For its R&D operations, Dairymaster wants milk-cooling product specialists, data scientists, animal computing scientists and a veterinarian. “Just the list and breadth of the roles we’re seeking to fill will give an idea of the range of work we undertake,” stated Harty. To find out more about the opportunities available at Dairymaster, please visit www.dairymaster.com/careers/. The closing date for applications is Friday, 24 January. Dairymaster and its CEO had a busy 2013. The company represented Ireland at the World Entrepreneur of the Year competition in Monaco and was visited by several camera crews from the Middle East and the UK. Edmond Harty was a speaker at the Global Economic Forum, attended the Dublin Web Summit and received the University of Limerick Alumni Award. Founded in 1968, Dairymaster has carved out a reputation, both nationally and internationally, for providing hi-tech solutions for farming and, in particular, dairying challenges. That has resulted in Dairymaster having a 70% market share of new and parlour upgrade installations and exporting its products to over 40 countries. Almost all (95%) of Dairymaster’s products are manufactured at its eleven-acre site in Causeway, Co Kerry. Having complete control of the manufacturing process, allied to the company’s investment in R&D, means the company has kept ahead of its competitors in technological terms and always delivers on time and to specification.