Rolls-Royce Submarines today celebrated the opening of a new office in Glasgow, creating over 100 new jobs in the region.
Opened by the Rt Hon Maria Eagle MP, Minister for Defence Procurement and Industry, the new office at the Airport Business Park in Glasgow has created 120 specialist roles in electrical controls and instrumentation and cyber security.
Funded by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), the Glasgow office was selected to help access the skilled talent pools in the region. New starters will support the Dreadnought programme and other growth in demand from the Royal Navy, including work in support of the AUKUS agreement.
Rolls-Royce Submarines currently employs more than 5,000 people to design, manufacture and provide in-service support to the pressurised water reactors that power every boat in the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet.
In March 2023, it was confirmed that Rolls-Royce Submarines would provide all the nuclear reactor plants that will power new attack submarines as part of the tri-lateral agreement between Australia, the UK and US.
Rolls-Royce is currently supporting the existing Astute and Dreadnought boat build programmes through the delivery of reactor plant and associated components. Additionally, it provides frontline support across the world for reactor plant equipment from its Operations Centre in Derby and supports the submarines when in the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard and the naval bases at Devonport and Faslane.