Rolls-Royce Submarines today celebrated the opening of a new office in Cardiff, creating more than 100 new jobs in the Welsh capital.
Opened by First Minister Eluned Morgan and Rt Hon Jo Stevens, MP for Cardiff East, the new office based in St Mellon’s Cardiff has been selected to access the highly skilled talent pools across the region.
With a renewed interest and enthusiasm for nuclear across the UK and government, alongside Rolls-Royce Submarines’ growth in demand from the Ministry of Defence, the business intends to attract experts across a range of specialisms. These include mechanical design, materials engineering, structural integrity analysis, thermal analysis and fluid dynamics.
Funded by the UK Ministry of Defence, the office will support Rolls-Royce Submarines’ and the Submarine Delivery Agency's work on the Dreadnought and AUKUS programmes. The investment demonstrates the government's commitment to delivering the UK's nuclear deterrent as a national endeavour, led by the Defence Nuclear Enterprise.
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 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.