L-R: Brian Keville, MKO Managing Director, Minister Jack Chambers TD, Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation and Mark Christal, Head of Sustainability at Enterprise Ireland.
MKO, Ireland’s largest Planning and Environmental Consultancy, today announced plans to create 75 new jobs over the next three years, bringing its workforce to over 300 people. This strategic expansion will further solidify MKO’s position as the leader in the Irish environmental planning sector. The new 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, increase housing, and deliver critical national infrastructure.
Commenting on the job’s announcement, MKO’s Managing Director, Brian Keville, described the planned expansion as being exciting because of the new talent it will add to the company. He added: “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.”
Jack Chambers TD, Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation, attending the jobs announcement, 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.”
Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke, said, “By creating 75 highly skilled jobs and expanding its consulting services, MKO is strengthening the transformation of infrastructural development and reinforcing the importance and necessity of building sustainability and environmental practices into all parts of the planning process. I am delighted that MKO, an Enterprise Ireland supported company has grown to be a company of scale and I congratulate the entire team on this milestone. I am confident they will recruit the very best of talent for these roles and wish them every continued success.”
Commenting on the announcement, 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.”
For a full list of open positions and to apply, visit the MKO Careers Page.
L-R: Michael Watson (Environmental Director), Minister Jack Chambers TD, Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation, Regina Madden (Operations Director), Brian Keville (Managing Director), Mark Christal, Head of Sustainability at Enterprise Ireland, Áine Doherty (Head of People and Culture), John Hynes (Ecology Director) and Colm Ryan (Planning Director).
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