Careers

Kingspan is on the very edge of new developments within the industry

My name is Richard Hyland, working on TEK Environmental in Port [Unclear] and my job title is a Quality and Process Engineer.  In the recent years there has been the building boom which has led to quite a few opportunities with Kingspan predominantly providing services to the building markets, they have also grown with the boom.  With that, the company has had to develop and expand, which has made quite a few opportunities for everyone within the company but also for the graduates, if you are prepared to knuckle down and do the work that there are opportunities there for you.

As graduates, several weeks after we joined the company, we were all given an introduction to each of the different divisions, what they do and how they interact together.  So they give you an overall picture of the company and in theory leave you that you are not just focused on your own division.

Kingspan are keen to fast track talented graduates through the development and training programme to help them meet the responsibilities which they will see in their job roles.  Everybody that I have come across at any level of management is very open and approachable.

Kingspan is a rapidly expanding multinational company, which for me, was a major attraction.

My name is Anne-Marie O’Toole, I am currently based in the Lyon office in France and I came onto the Graduate Programme as Marketing Project Coordinator.  One of the main points when I was applying for jobs was I wanted to make sure I was working for an Irish company with an international perspective.  So when I found the Kingspan Graduate Programme it pretty much ticked all the boxes.

The training and development that Kingspan does for its graduates allows immediate exposure to senior management, even to the level of CEO.  In the initial induction that we have at Kingspan Group, we meet the CEO, we meet senior management who give us an outline and exposure to all their responsibilities and what their division actually does.

Within the division it is a very open culture, you can suggest something and regardless of the fact that you have been in the company a year or 20 years, your opinion is taken on board, like anybody else’s and you can actually make a difference.

Kingspan is a rapidly expanding multinational company, which for me, was a major attraction.

I am Leon van Maurik and I am Marketing Projects Co-ordinator and I am based at the Holywell site of Kingspan here in the UK.  Kingspan employs roughly 5,000 people divided over the five divisions and they are based worldwide.

The massive growth that Kingspan has experienced the last few years was tremendous and definitely opened up many possibilities for the graduates.  As a graduate you get a lot of responsibility early on – an example for that is that I have project managed setting up the sales offices in Norway and Sweden where we had to get a Sales Manager, set up the office in a certain timeframe for a certain budget.  I got a lot of responsibility in doing that, of course I was guided by senior management, but it was my project essentially.

I am relishing the challenge of applying a key role in a lrge project which ivolves the expansion of existing production lines.

I am Craig McGarry, I am a Divisional Project Engineer working for Kingspan Insulated Panels.  My role is to project manage various engineering works in the plant in Belgium.  These works vary from small scale process improvements such as new machinery etcetera, which also would encompass large scale projects such as a line move, which I am currently working on.

The main attraction for Kingspan for me was that I had studied in France for two years and I wanted to join a company – primarily an Irish company – that would still have an outward focus towards the rest of the world and Kingspan gave me opportunities to travel, if I wanted to.

The greatest perk to my job is the fact that I feel that I am developing as quickly as I possibly can and that Kingspan is 100% focused on that development.