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Health / Social Work Human Health Services And Activities Human Health Activities 86.90 - Other human health activities
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 April 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
GE Healthcare, an American manufacturer and distributor of medical technology and digital solutions, will hire 100 employees in Krakow, Poland, by the end of 2022. Since the beginning of the year, 40 people have already been recruited. GE Healthcare is looking for senior IT specialists, who have experience in Cloud Architecture, Data Engineering, Software Engineering or experts in the Salesforce platform. The company refers to the pandemic as the catalyst for its growth: COVID-19 accelerated the implementation of digital solutions in medicine.
GE Healthcare offers smart devices, data, analytical tools, applications and services to companies and started its operation in Poland in 2016. The company employs about 47,000 people worldwide.
Previous business expansion was recorded in the ERM database in 2013, with 150 new jobs (GE Healthcare-2013-PL).
Eurofound (2022), GE Healthcare, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 106675, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106675.
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