MKO, the Irish planning and environmental consultancy, has announced plans to create 75 jobs over the next three years, bringing its workforce to more than 300 people. 

Help solve the defining environmental and societal challenges of our time

The roles will deliver on the company strategy and supports its vision: to expand MKO’s reach and impact to help solve the defining environmental and societal challenges of our time. 

The new roles will be based nationwide across the company’s planning, environmental, and ecology divisions. The new job opportunities will include experienced professionals and recent graduates, with recruitment commencing immediately. 

Founded in 2008, MKO is a wholly Irish-owned company with offices in Dublin and Galway and is widely recognised for its track record of delivering complex planning and environmental projects across a broad range of sectors.

The expansion will further the company’s ambition to help deliver projects that decarbonise the economy, solve the housing crisis, and deliver critical national infrastructure. 

MKO managing director Brian Keville described the planned expansion as being exciting because of the new talent it will add to the company: “MKO is a people-based, people-centred business. To add a further 75 professionals to increase the capability and capacity of our already talented teams, will really help us do more for our clients and their projects at a time of unprecedented demand for our services.” 

Environmental assessments

Jack Chambers, public expenditure minister, said: “Companies such as MKO are critical to delivering the planning consents and environmental assessments essential to deliver the infrastructure projects funded by the government’s updated National Development Plan. Our plan to invest in our capital infrastructure and address our infrastructure deficit is dependent on having the companies and people to deliver it, so I very much welcome this jobs announcement and company expansion by MKO.” 

Mark Christal, head of sustainability at Enterprise Ireland, said: “Enterprise Ireland is committed to supporting Irish companies such as MKO as they scale to serve markets at home and abroad. Supporting Irish companies with the ambition to scale is a key priority for Enterprise Ireland, and we will continue to work closely with MKO as an Enterprise Ireland client company to help them maximise their growth potential.”