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SL Controls has been nominated for an award in the 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. We are up for the Excellence in Workplace award for the SL Controls Live Well at SL and Think Well at SL programmes. The awards are run by Chambers Ireland, the umbrella organisation for Ireland’s network of Chambers of Commerce …
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Each week the Sunday Business Post interviews one of Ireland’s corporate leaders. Last week they interviewed Keith Moran, Managing Director at SL Controls. Read the interview now. Click to view larger image:
SL Controls is donating €500 to the Galway Simon Community after it won the most votes in our latest Share the Love campaign. Share the Love is an SL Controls’ initiative that supports local good causes and charities. This campaign focused on the Galway area where SL Controls has a well-established and busy office. The …
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SL Controls have linked up with the Irish Heart Foundation to run an employee Step Challenge. The Challenge will run for four weeks from 11 July to 8 August as part of the Live Well at SL programme. SL Controls employees from across the company are participating by increasing their daily steps. During the Challenge, …
E-Cubers is an initiative that is proactively addressing engineering skills shortages in Ireland. While it promotes engineering in general, the main focus of E-Cubers is an emerging engineering role that is increasingly in demand – Equipment Systems Engineer. Equipment Systems Engineers have both traditional engineering skills as well as skills in new technologies and processes. …
Health and safety is a field that is going through a period of change from an essential but often disliked box-ticking exercise to something seen as an essential part of the core makeup of a business. Businesses now see the way they manage health and safety as being a representation of the business as a …
On Friday, 29 June, we swapped engineering and writing code for space hopper racing and football darts as we travelled to Athlone for our annual summer outing. This year we enlisted the help of Get West for our activity: the SL Controls Office Olympics at Buccaneers Rugby Club in Athlone. The activities included a series …
SL Controls continuing to expand and grow. Tech companies in Sligo collectively announcing hundreds of new jobs in the first five months of this year alone. Specialist companies involved in the MedTech industry based in the North West of Ireland coming together to launch the Atlantic MedTech Cluster last month. These are just some examples …
The World Cup gets underway this week, so we decided to celebrate SL Controls Diversity Week. While SL Controls doesn’t have as many nationalities as teams in the World Cup, we do have people from 12 different countries working for us. SL Controls Diversity Week is the ideal opportunity to celebrate and learn about the …
Keith Moran co-founded SL Controls and is its Managing Director. Read a profile article from the Sunday Independent which details the launch of the company and its journey to date. View PDF: Sunday Independent 3 June 2018
Last week SL Controls was part of the launch of the new Atlantic MedTech Cluster. The Cluster includes SL Controls and seven other companies based in the North West that provide specialist services to the MedTech industry. Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, launched the Cluster. Here is some of the press …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 »
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