Rolls-Royce shake-up to cost Midlands 240 jobs
ROLLS-ROYCE has announced that around 240 jobs are to go at its sites in Solihull and Ansty.
The cuts are part of a huge restructure which will see 9,000 jobs axed from the aerospace giant’s global workforce of 52,000 due to a dramatic slump in the aviation industry caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
That was announced by RollsRoyce last month but at the time, the company did not give a breakdown of where the cuts would fall.
The majority of jobs being lost locally will be
Solihull site.
The company revealed it plans to cut around 175 roles there and 65 at its operation in Ansty. RollsRoyce employs several hundred workers at its manufacturing site in Ansty. The plant on the edge of Coventry makes fan cases for civil aero engines.
Work began on Rolls-Royce’s £60 million Solihull site in September 2013, to replace two former sites in Hall Green, Birmingham. At the time the operation was known as Aero Engine Controls
at
Rolls-Royce’s
(AEC). The facility produces engine control systems for a range of applications, including the Rolls-Royce Trent family of aircraft engines. The company has confirmed 3,000 jobs will go in the UK, after opening a “voluntary severance” scheme. It estimates that around half of the UK job losses (1,500) will be at Derby and a smaller site in Nottinghamshire.
A Rolls-Royce spokesman said the company had opened voluntary severance to its Civil Aerospace employees in the UK this week. The spokesman said no one has been made redundant and that the “likely impact” would be 175 jobs going in Solihull and 65 in Ansty in 2020.
They said: “Offering voluntary severance is an important step as we resize our business to adapt to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the aviation industry. Because of the unprecedented impact of the crisis on our Civil Aerospace business, we will unfortunately lose people who have worked hard to establish our world-leading position.”