Dublin

Dublin's aviation identity is dominated by aircraft leasing and finance rather than manufacturing. The city is home to major global lessors including AerCap, SMBC Aviation Capital and Avolon, and Ireland manages roughly half the world's leased commercial aircraft fleet from Dublin-based operations, a genuinely unusual concentration of aviation finance expertise in one city. Alongside that sits a substantial pharmaceutical and medtech manufacturing base, with multinational manufacturers running large-scale production sites in and around the greater Dublin area, which is where most of the hands-on manufacturing and technical trade demand in the region actually sits.

For a trades and engineering recruiter, Dublin is a different kind of market to our UK locations: less about aerospace primes and defence shipyards, more about precision manufacturing, process engineering and technical maintenance roles feeding the pharma, medtech and broader advanced manufacturing sector that's grown rapidly around the city.

• Manufacturing and process technicians, particularly pharma and medtech
• CNC machinists and precision engineers
• Quality inspectors and validation technicians
• Electrical and mechanical maintenance fitters
• Manufacturing and process engineers

Dublin is our first location outside the UK, and we've approached it the same way we approach every new town: by learning who actually employs the trades we specialise in, rather than assuming the market looks like our UK client base. That means understanding the pharma and medtech manufacturing calendar, the specific quality and validation standards those sites work to, and how they differ from the aerospace and defence documentation our UK candidates are often used to.

Do you place candidates in aviation leasing roles in Dublin?

No. Our specialism is skilled trades and engineering, so in Dublin that means manufacturing, process and technical maintenance roles, particularly in pharma and medtech, rather than the aviation finance and leasing positions the city is best known for globally.