AerCap, the world’s largest independent aircraft leasing company, has created over 100 new highly skilled jobs in Ireland.

Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (JE&I) announced that AerCap, a global aviation leasing company with operations in Dublin and Shannon, has created over 100 new highly skilled jobs in Ireland. The positions created span a number of disciplines including sales and marketing, aircraft technical, legal, contracts management, finance and treasury.

AerCap owns and manages 1,300 aircraft in its current fleet and has a portfolio of 470 high-demand, fuel-efficient aircraft on order. Its aircraft are leased to 200 customers in 90 countries. The new Airbus A350 XWB will form part of AerCap’s core fleet in the coming years.

“Aircraft leasing is a key sector which we have targeted as part of our Action Plan for Jobs, and in recent years we have seen a strong jobs performance in this area,” said the minister for JE&I Richard Bruton TD. “We have put in place measures to support continued growth in this area, including the appointment of Simon Harris as a strong minister of state with specific responsibility in this area, and through his strategy for financial services are targeting further growth in this area. Today’s announcement that AerCap, a world-leading company in this area, is creating 100 additional jobs in this area is another great boost for this sector.”

“We are pleased with the investment we have made in Ireland which now includes our commercial center in Dublin. Over the past year we have created over 100 new highly skilled jobs and intend to continue growing our operations in Dublin and Shannon,” said Aengus Kelly, CEO at AerCap said. “Through our people, suppliers and providers of technical support we contribute over $100 million to the Irish economy each year.”