Fresh jobs boost as Rebel firm expands to Limerick

LIMERICK has received a further boost with a renewable energy firm unveiling plans to expand to the city.

Green Rebel exists to provide a full range of survey and data services to the offshore renewable energy industry.

Founded in Cork, it’s now opening a second facility at Ballysimon Road on the outskirts of Limerick city.

As a result of this, 25 people are currently being sought, with a further 50 to follow across the next two years.

Roles on offer include those for oceanographers, geophysicists, data scientists and mechanical engineers.

On top of this, positions are available for electrical engineers, survey vessel crew, technicians and project leads.

Jobs will be based at the firm’s new premises in Limerick, as well as on its water-based survey vessels and in Cork.

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The split of jobs is as yet unconfirmed, but it’s understood more than half of the 75 will be at its new state-of-the-art base in Limerick.

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Set up by entrepreneur Pearse Flynn in 2020, Green Rebel specialises in acquiring, processing and analysing data using survey boats and aircraft as well as specially designed buoys. These are devices which float on water.

Kieran Ivers, the chief executive of Green Rebel said: “This jobs announcement is a reflection of the progress we’ve made in developing world-class services which will inform offshore wind farm developments in Ireland and abroad. Green Rebel is competing on a global scale. We’ve built fast-to-enter new markets in the UK and mainland Europe with our sights firmly focused on offering our services across other global markets.”

Limerick will be the location for the firm’s MetOcean division.

Here, its floating buoy is being designed and assembled.

The buoys, which are as tall as a two-storey house, are designed to offer lightness in order to float, more power and as a result, a better quality of data.

Able to operate without the need for regular human intervention at sea, they weigh as much as 11 family cars.

They will deliver data on waves, ocean currents and water quality.

This will in turn be analysed and interpreted by a team of data specialists here in Limerick.

The jobs are being created with the support of Enterprise Ireland.

Its food and sustainability manager Mark Christal said: “This announcement underlines the potential that exists for Irish companies in supplying the sustainable energy sector and it’s an area that Enterprise Ireland is increasingly active in.”