Portwest

Workwear & Uniforms
Has an LEI2 legal entitiesTruth index A
28Open roles15 posted in 30 days+2 this week
57 daysTime to fillmedian of 33 closed rolesmarket: 32 days
A 92/100Truth index
Lately:+2 roles posted this weekFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 15, 2026

Portwest is an Irish family-owned designer, manufacturer and distributor of workwear, safety wear and personal protective equipment, headquartered in Westport, County Mayo. Founded in 1904, it employs more than 6,000 people worldwide and sells around 1,400 styles across over 20 ranges, including high-visibility, flame-resistant and all-weather clothing, footwear and hand protection, made in its own production facilities. It hires area and technical sales managers, business development and marketing managers, warehouse operatives and forklift drivers, finance, sourcing and fleet staff and commercial graduates in Ireland, the UK, continental Europe, the US and Australia.

It is hiring: 28 open roles, 15 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Legal name
PORTWEST UNLIMITED COMPANYactive
Headquarters
Westport, Ireland
Founded
1904
Employees
5000+estimated range
Legal entities
2 in 1 countries
Open roles
28 in 20 citiesAlion job postings
Register numbers
CRO 21284
Official records
Wikidata Q17119669LEI 6354002GEHS6FQKOZS04
Website
portwest.com

As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 28 open roles at Portwest. Portwest is headquartered in Westport, Ireland. It was founded in 1904.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

Trust

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Legal entity active
PORTWEST UNLIMITED COMPANY
Yes
Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
92/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
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Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring

All open roles →

Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.

Sales is the largest family, 54 of open roles.

15Posted in 30 days54% of open roles are fresh
4%Remote roles1 of 28
20Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
4 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United Kingdom9On site
Ireland7On site
Germany5On site
Italy5On site
Spain5On site
United States4On site
Remote, from elsewhere1Rare
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 1.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Portwest57 days
Market, same roles32 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand62
Pay4
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−13%
Sep 7This week
Open roles a week: 31 then, 27 now
Are the postings real?
A
92 / 100Portwest scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 33% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 57 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale33%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Sales54▲
Management22▼
Networking3▲
Support3▲
Analytics3▲
Finance3▼
Newest roles
Business Analyst
In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Bachelor's Degree · Westport
Group Industrial Engineer
≈ $41k – $87k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · United Kingdom
IT Support Technician
In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Westport
IT Network Engineer
In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Westport
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
English414%
German311%
Polish27%
Italian27%
Irish14%
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 100%
Experience asked: 3.5 years on average, in 21 postings. 15 postings state a degree.
Contract type
Full-Time 17Contract 5
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
View 28 jobsRoles matching my profile
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Footprint

Hiring in 20 cities in 15 countries.

20Cities
15Countries
WestportBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
Westport IrelandHeadquarters3Networking, Support, Analytics67%
Milan ItalyPlant / site2Management, Field & Service0%
Thurnscoe United KingdomPlant / site2Legal, Education0%
Manchester United KingdomRegional office1Operations0%
Warsaw PolandSales office1Sales0%
Budapest HungarySales office1Management0%
Barcelona SpainSales office1Sales0%
Pamplona SpainSales office1Sales0%
All 22 offices
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Peers

Compare →

Ranked #6 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.

#CompanyHQOpen rolesSize
1Cintas CorporationMason, United States2,2115000+
2VestisRoswell, United States4745000+
3Vostok-ServiceMoscow, Russia691001-5000
4Canadian LinenDallas, United States361001-5000
5Alsco GermanyCologne, Germany325000+
6PortwestWestport, Ireland285000+
7Jonsson WorkwearDurban, South Africa21201-500
8Works KiefnerNeckartenzlingen, Germany45000+
Portwest competitors and alternatives
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Portwest over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

6Technologies in use
4Postings analysed
57/100Stack modernity
Cloud & platformsMicrosoft Entra IDWindowsWindows Server
Developer toolsMicrosoft Excel
Practices & domainsETL/ELTVLAN
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Newsroom

top 2%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
#135,959Web rankTranco top 1M
Nov 19, 20252025
Press release · PRNewswire
Portwest Acquires Grupo Kondor, Strengthening Its Position in Latin America
/PRNewswire/ -- Portwest, a global leader in workwear, safety footwear, and personal protective equipment (PPE), has acquired a majority shareholding in Grupo...
Nov 11, 20252025
News · Irish Examiner
Mayo workwear and footwear brand Portwest makes acquisition in Colombia
Portwest now employs over 6,400 people worldwide
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once