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The SL Controls team held a coffee morning on Halloween earlier this week to raise money for the Children’s Health Foundation. The Children’s Health Foundation supports sick children and their families in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals as well as the urgent care centres in Temple Street, Crumlin, Connolly, and Tallaght. Employees made their own donations …

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As this is World Mental Health Day 2023, we are taking the opportunity to promote good workplace mental health across SL Controls. This includes issuing an updated Mental Health and Wellbeing policy to all employees that includes expanded information on the supports the company makes available to individuals and managers in relation to mental health …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. My job is to make sure that people actually do what they say they are going to do. We are dealing with companies that make medicine and medical devices, so it’s very important that we keep our standards high. We do a …

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This week is Dynamic Learning Week at SL Controls. Dynamic Learning is our Continuous Professional Development (CPD) initiative where we support our employees as they enhance their skills. The aim is to foster a learning culture that is dynamic, pushes boundaries, and facilitates innovation. During Dynamic Learning Week, we are hosting a series of events …

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A number of SL Controls staff attended a first-aid training course over the summer. The training days took place at our Sligo and Limerick facilities, and they were well attended by a broad section of the team. Senior Systems Engineer Conor Davey was one of the organizers of the training. He said: “I was happy …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. I write programs or sets of instructions to create applications used in medicine-making factories or hospitals. 2. What types of projects are you working on at the moment? The current project I am working on involves creating a development environment to configure …

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We ran a Fitness Month at SL Controls this summer as part of our Live Well at SL programme. It brought out some friendly competitiveness as the participants were split into teams to earn points by walking, running, cycling, or swimming. Those taking part in the competition used the Strava app to record their activity …

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SL Controls has launched its first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policy, reinforcing our commitment to nurturing a workplace environment that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. The aim of the policy is to create an open and inclusive culture where everyone feels valued. Shauna Ryan, SL Controls Director of People and Culture, said: “Diversity, equity, and …

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Our ESG champions recently decided to celebrate the many fathers working at SL Controls, so we asked the dads on our team about their thoughts on being a father and what it means to them. We put this video together with the responses.

1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old? I work on machines to get them to a point where they’re running well and making the products they are supposed to be making. I also find all the little problems with them and make them run better than they were the …

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Today is International Women in Engineering Day, so it is the ideal opportunity to celebrate the female engineers in SL Controls and the fantastic contribution they make to the company. We have women engineers working in a range of roles across all parts of the business. Days like International Women in Engineering Day also bring …

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The SL Controls company outing took place over the weekend as the team headed to Athlone last Friday. Despite the storms in parts of the country, the weather held up as we were split into teams to compete in an Urban Adventure competition. Armed with iPads, the teams set off to find various hotspots around …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old? An automated factory is a place where a lot of robots make things such as medicines. We write a list of steps for the robots to follow to allow them to make the medicines. 2. What types of projects are you working …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. I work with cool technologies and provide innovative solutions to problems! I am a systems engineer and I work on new technologies and digital tools, including technologies related to augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. I also work on automating workflows …

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This week is workplace wellbeing week at SL Controls. We have a series of events planned throughout the week, culminating on Friday 28 April, the official IBEC National Workplace Wellbeing Day. According to IBEC, National Workplace Wellbeing Day is “Ireland’s biggest celebration of workplace health and wellbeing”. Shauna Ryan, SL Controls Director of People and …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. I am an operations manager in SL Controls, so I am responsible for ensuring our portfolio continues growing through existing and new clients. I work with the commercial team to onboard new projects for our engineers to work on.   2. What …

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SL Controls is proud to support this year’s International Women’s Day theme, Embrace Equity. It’s an especially important message to get across in engineering as the sector seeks to attract more women. The International Women’s Day theme of Embrace Equity is about going beyond equality, where equality is the goal rather than the approach. After …

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Encouraging the next generation of employees and entrepreneurs to consider engineering is important to us at SL Controls, so we jumped at the opportunity to get involved with STEAM Education again. Last year, two of our engineers had a fantastic experience teaching children in a Sligo primary school about engineering topics and concepts. This time …

Engineering in a Box Lessons for 4th Class Pupils at Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh, Limerick Read More »

The SL Controls team is looking forward to the annual engineering showcase, Explore Engineering. It takes place this year on Thursday 2 March and it’s back to its former home, Shannon Airport. Explore Engineering is aimed at students, teachers, and parents with the goal of showcasing the career opportunities that exist in the engineering sector …

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SL Controls is proud to announce the creation of 100 new highly skilled jobs in Ireland, helping us achieve our growth objectives and our plans for further expansion in target markets around the world. The new jobs will bring the SL Controls workforce to a total of 220. The roles will be based in Ireland, …

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We are delighted to have been selected as a finalist for the Innovator Excellence Award at the upcoming Sligo Chamber of Commerce Excellence Awards. We are one of three finalists for the award, which is sponsored by Atlantic Technological University. Keith Moran, CEO at SL Controls said: “The Innovator Excellence Award category this year is …

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Describe your job in 5 words Trusted partner delivering technology transformation. What is a cool thing you are working on right now? Can’t tell you (client confidentiality and all)… but it’s cool. The tech is cool too. A lot of tech that I’m currently working with the SL team wouldn’t have seen. I’m working a …

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The first in-person Christmas gatherings at SL Controls took place over the weekend as staff at our regional offices got together for a night out ahead of the seasonal break. Over 70 people attended the get-togethers which took place in Sligo, Galway, Limerick, and Maynooth. Shauna Ryan, Director of People and Culture from SL Controls …

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Are you able to recognize the signs and symptoms of common mental health problems? Would you know how to engage in a conversation with a colleague, family member, or friend you are concerned about? These were some of the topics covered in a recent Lunch & Learn session at SL Controls. Lunch & Learn is …

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Tomorrow is International Men’s Day, an event focused on celebrating and highlighting positive male role models as well as raising awareness of the importance of well-being in the lives of men and boys. To mark International Men’s Day, we are celebrating the many fathers who work at SL Controls, exploring how they juggle home and …

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SL Controls Validation Engineer Fiona Chung will be joining other STEM advocates (including an Irish astronaut candidate) this evening at an event promoting careers in STEM. The event, which is part of Science Week 2022, is organized by medical device company Abbott and is being held at the Atlantic Technological University in Sligo. Fiona will …

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1. Describe your job in 5 words Equipment automation and quality compliance 2. What is a cool thing you are working on right now? Factory automation would probably be the coolest right now. In one project I am working on, we are trying to get as much digital factory technologies onto the site as possible. …

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Describe your job in 5 words or less Challenging but very rewarding. What is a cool thing you are working on right now? Right now, I’m working for a pharma company in Germany. The project involves connecting about 100 machines to an MES system. It’s a big project but it’s interesting because there is such …

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Technology and pharmaceutical industry leaders came together this month at the Pharma MES conference to discuss, among other things, the development of the Factory of the Future. SL Controls CTO Paul Clarke was involved, hosting discussions on the importance of integration in the development of Smart Factories Pharma MES took place in Berlin, Germany, from …

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At SL Controls, we take the issue of mental health in the workplace and wider society seriously, so we are pleased to lend our support to World Suicide Prevention Day 2022. The campaigning day takes place tomorrow, Saturday 10 September. It aims to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and focus attention on the message that suicide …

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