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What do you do when you feel like your engineering career has stalled? This was the topic of a question that Emer Feeney answered in last week’s Sunday Independent. Emer is an HR Generalist here at SL Controls. You can read the full article here. Emer answered the question by giving eight smart tips on …
Making the transition from life as a college student to working a full-time job is sometimes difficult in the early months. This particularly applies to those who go straight to college from secondary school. Not everyone follows this route, of course, so have a considerably different experience. One example is Raymond O’Shea, a Graduate Controls …
The new Atlantic MedTech Cluster officially launched in Sligo this week. The Atlantic MedTech Cluster includes eight Irish MedTech specialist companies that are all based in the North West, including SL Controls. The other companies involved are Arrotek, ATS, iNBLEX Plastics, Pharma Stainless, Tool & Gauge, Verus Precision, and Ward Automation. Together these companies have …
The See Change Green Ribbon campaign is continuing this month and, as part of our support for it, we are running a photography competition. So, what has photography got to do with encouraging people to discuss mental health issues in the workplace? It is all about the theme of the competition, which is Mind Your …
Taking Photos to Promote Mental Health Discussions in the Workplace Read More »
SL Controls has made the shortlist for the IoT Innovation Award at this year’s Tech Excellence Awards for our TOTALline suite of products. This includes TOTALdata and TOTALbatch. Other nominees in the Internet of Things innovation category are: ActionPoint AmbiSense Blueface Vodafone This is the 18th year of the Tech Excellence Awards, an event widely …
SL Controls Nominated for IoT Innovation of the Year Award Read More »
Every day in Ireland, people who are suicidal, who self-harm, or have been bereaved by suicide, contact counsellors at Pieta House for support. This support is provided completely free of charge and is invaluable to those who make contact with the service as well as society generally. It is for these reasons that SL Controls …
Share the Love is a quarterly campaign we run at SL Controls to support good causes and charities. It gives employees as well as their friends and family a say on which local charities and good causes SL Controls supports. It also helps focus our efforts on local projects. Each quarter we run the campaign …
Share the Love Galway – Vote for Your Favourite Project Read More »
The IT Sligo Engineering Expo took place on the 3 May in the Knocknarea Arena at IT Sligo. The event brings together industry exhibitors, students of all ages, and educators. On the day, students showcased their final year projects for the general public and exhibitors to see. SL Controls were delighted to participate in judging …
The projects and solutions we deliver for clients at SL Controls require very particular skillsets. This includes controls, validation, and automation engineering skills, as well as skills in the emerging discipline of equipment systems engineer. We take on engineers at all levels, from graduates to project managers, but it’s important we get the right people. …
What Makes Being a Recruiter at SL Controls Different to Other Companies? Read More »
What is the Green Ribbon Campaign? The annual Green Ribbon Campaign takes place every May. It aims to get people talking openly about mental health problems and challenges the associated stigma that sometimes comes with mental health issues. The Green Ribbon campaign is managed by See Change, the national stigma reduction partnership. SL Controls is …
Have you done any spring cleaning in your home yet? At SL Controls, our team took the opportunity to spring clean and at the same time help children and adults in Ireland with disabilities. We did this by providing each of our regional offices around the country with a yellow Enable Ireland bag, asking everyone …
SL Controls today presented a cheque for €500 to Carraroe National School in Sligo. The school plans to use the money to help buy a new football net. The presentation of the donation took place at the school’s assembly this morning. The donation is part of SL Controls’ Share the Love campaign. This campaign involved …
SL Controls Donates €500 to Carraroe National School in Sligo Read More »
Do you hope to graduate with an engineering degree over the next few months? If so, Eamon Davern’s story will be of interest to you. In less than a year, he went from being a graduate engineer just out of college to a field systems engineer travelling Europe and the rest of the world. SL …
To find out more about SL Controls, the work we do, and the people on our team, watch our new corporate video. For more information on how we can help your business, please contact us today.
If you passed any of our offices around Ireland on Easter Thursday, you may have seen a bunch of engineers running around with a balloon between their legs. This is how we roll at SL Controls. To be specific, you would have seen members of our team taking part in our Easter Spring Chicken Race. …
A company with growth plans as ambitious as ours at SL Controls needs top quality engineers. Could you be the next engineer to join our Limerick team? In addition to having ambitious growth plans, we also operate in an engineering sector that is itself experiencing considerable growth. One of the reasons for this is the …
Calling all Automation, Controls and Systems Validation Engineers in Limerick Read More »
Share the Love is a campaign SL Controls launched in February to support local good causes and charities. We are delighted to announce the winner of the first campaign is Carraroe National School in Sligo. It will receive €500 which will go towards the purchase of a new football net for the main play area …
SL Controls’ Share the Love Winning Project is Carraroe NS Read More »
Relocating for your career is a major undertaking, particularly if you are not familiar with the new location you are moving to. For SL Controls Field Engineer Dominic Linden, it was a whirlwind involving three months of training and working in several different countries while also getting settled in his new home – Ireland. Dominic …
SL Controls is using International Women’s Day to encourage more young women and teenage girls to consider a career in engineering. “You don’t have to look very far to find figures that highlight the gender imbalance in engineering,” said Adrienne Burke, SL Controls In-House Recruiter. “It starts at secondary school when young people start choosing …
Women Urged to Consider an Engineering Career on International Women’s Day Read More »
The countdown to the Limerick for Engineering event is on – again. The major engineering showcase was originally planned for last week but was delayed because of the weather. It will now take place this Thursday, 8 March. The location is the same, though – the Departures Hall of Shannon Airport. It’s at 6pm …
Watch Paul Clarke, SL Controls’ technical director, explain the TOTALline product and its benefits to your business.
The workplace has been identified as a key setting for mental health stigma reduction activities. Recent research conducted by Dept. of Health and See Change found that almost half of Irish people would deliberately conceal a mental health problem from co-workers. 47% surveyed believed that being open would have a negative impact on a person’s …
SL Controls take the pledge to become a See Change workplace Read More »
Did you know SL Controls has very low levels of staff turnover, particularly in engineering roles? There are lots of reasons for this including the range of clients and diverse technologies that our engineers work on. This makes the work exciting, always interesting, and you get to continuously gain experience and develop new skills. The …
Valentine’s Day is a day of romance. At SL Controls, we want to extend the sharing of love further so are using today to launch a new campaign to support local charities and good causes. We have teamed up with onestepcloser.to to give our employees, their family, and friends a say in the charity SL …
At SL Controls, we believe it is important to reward the effort, ambition, innovativeness, commitment, and hard work of our employees. We have always done this through management recognition, salary packages, our careers pathways programme, and more. We have now launched another initiative – TOTALrewards TOTALrewards is a formal rewards and recognition programme focussed on …
SL Controls Launch Reward and Recognition Programme Read More »
SL Controls has launched its new suite of products, TOTALline. The launch took place at the National Manufacturing and Supply Chain conference in Dublin today. Read the product launch press release below. Press release: An Irish engineering firm has developed cost-saving software that vastly improves production line efficiency and traceability One million engineering hours spent …
SL Controls Launches TOTALline to Improve Production Line Efficiency and Traceability Read More »
OEE is crucial to your operations. If you’re improving it, you’re moving in the right direction. If it is slipping backwards you must immediately address the issues. What if we could improve OEE in your production line by up to 20 percent? It’s a big claim, but we’re launching a product tomorrow that does just …
It is the final week of the Operation Transformation initiative at SL Controls. Throughout January, employees from all our offices have engaged in activities to promote workplace physical and mental health. This included everything from walking a mile at lunchtime to setting personal goals at the start of every week. Part of the initiative was …
SL Controls is launching a new product that will dramatically improve production lines in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and food and beverage industries. The launch is one of the flagship events of the National Manufacturing Exhibition taking place on 31 January. The National Manufacturing and Supply Chain Conference and Exhibition is the largest event of …
Your Invitation to the SL Controls Product Launch Read More »
SL Controls has launched a calendar of workplace wellbeing events for 2018 as part of the Live Well at SL and Think Well at SL programmes. Live Well at SL is an initiative by the company to promote good physical health among employees in the workplace, while Think Well at SL promotes good mental health …
SL Controls Launches its Workplace Wellbeing Programme of Events for 2018 Read More »
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