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Published Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Dutch company to hire 300 employees
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Philips, a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Amsterdam, opens 300 jobs for its branch in Costa Rica.
According to the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency, CINDE, the company acquired the Volcano Corporation, which in turn has operated in the country since 2011.
Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, Philips Costa Rica has donated 7,056 extraction kits for Inciensa and 1,000 polyethylene covers for the National Children's Hospital. Additionally, the company has collaborated with the University of Costa Rica to develop 3-D printed face shields.
Currently, the plant employs 2,850 people and is expected to exceed 3,000 employees before the end of the year, due to a hiring program. CINDE forecasts an additional 300 more employees in the areas of manufacturing, research and development engineering, and quality and process engineering.
These new hires will be added to the additional 410 new employees hired since March 2020, to date. The expansion comes in response to the company's mission to positively impact people's lives through significant innovations in the health technologies industry, thus enabling greater access to health and better overall care.
From Costa Rica, Philips manufactures the Image Guided Therapy Devices (IGTD) and Sleep and Respiratory Care devices. In addition, in 2020, the company incorporated the manufacture of sensors that measure a patient’s exhaled carbon dioxide, as well as sensors that measure oxygen in the blood – both, belonging to the categories of continuous monitoring, analysis, and therapeutic care.
“The growth of Philips in Costa Rica is due to strong results from local operations, due to the quality, commitment, and passion that our Costa Rican talent has demonstrated over the years," said Natalia Méndez Debriones, Leader of Medical Device Operations for Philips. "This is how we went from being a plant of 550 employees in 2015 to 2,850 employees today.”
According to Philips, Costa Rica offers the optimal environment for business growth, due to diverse factors, including political stability, social peace, human talent, openness to foreign investment, and geographic proximity to the U.S. market.
These 300 new available positions require manufacturing operators, process engineers, manufacturing technicians, buyers, planners, research and development engineers, and quality engineers. In addition to these profiles, Philips projects that new technologies and innovations will be developed in Costa Rica.
People interested in applying for the operator position may apply through the Philips job website.
For all other positions, people may apply through the Philips corporate employment page. In the right-hand column, select Costa Rica to filter for available positions.
Unemployment is one of the most critical issues in the country. According to the Employment Survey for the second quarter of 2020, from April to June, of the National Institute of Statistics and Census, the unemployment rate was at 24%, which meant that the unemployed population reached 551,000 people.
This is a dramatic increase in unemployment compared to the same period in 2019, when 256,000 people were out of work.
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