Siemens Limited is hiring 60 skilled technical and network specialists for its operation in Cork city.
The expansion follows its securing of a number of new contracts and the company said the jobs would be in its IT Solutions & Services division in the city.
Dr Werner Kruckow, Siemens Ireland CEO, said one of the new contracts it had secured was a multi-million euro deal to provide IT assistance for a multinational firm in nine languages in 34 countries.
Siemens beat competitors to this contract in part due to the company’s “ability to hire people of the appropriate skills sets” in Ireland, Dr Kruckow said.
Siemens employs more than 1,100 people in offices in Dublin, Cork and Belfast. The company already employs 270 people in Cork.
Last week Siemens said it was going to cut 16,750 jobs world-wide, including 5,250 in Germany, in an attempt to save €.2 billion by 2010.
The company did not say if the worldwide cutbacks would affect Ireland.
Corporate Communications manager with Siemens in Ireland, Michael O'Connor, said he expected headquarters to say if Irish jobs with Siemens will be affected later this month, when Siemens issues its third quarter earnings statement.
He said the worldwide cuts were to be concentrated on back office and administrative roles whereas Siemens' Irish operations tended to concentrate on the manufacturing and sales and service areas.
He pointed out that one of the reasons Cork had won a new contract was its competitive cost base. Hiring for the new posts is underway.