Randox hiring engineers to ramp up Covid-19 test kit production
Mechanical, electrical and manufacturing engineers are being recruited by Co Antrim based Randox Laboratories to enhance the company’s Covid-19 testing capacity.
A total of 160 new positions have been advertised with work due to begin at the Randox Science Park within weeks.
The leading healthcare diagnostics company said the newly-recruited engineers will be involved in “the fast-tracked development of specialist molecular analysers” used to detect the presence of Covid-19.
These testing platforms will further enhance the government’s national testing scheme for key workers, as well as being more widely available.
Randox managing director Peter Fitzgerald said:
“It is Randox’s priority to ensure that we support the UK’s effort to fight Covid-19, by testing at scale. We know that this is the most effective way to both save lives and promote a timely return to a more normal society.”
Mr Fitzgerald said the production of both testing kits and the testing analysers on which the tests are performed was being ramped up, and added: “We are aiming, by working at maximum efficiency in a greatly accelerated time frame of 6-7 weeks, to manufacture 200 of our most state-of-the-art testing platforms”.