Rolls-Royce is planning to cut up to 50 jobs in its civil aerospace division in Bristol as part of a previously-announced scheme to reduce costs across the business.
The engineering giant, which has a defence and civil aerospace site in Filton, is reportedly culling its UK workforce by 3,000 after a drastic fall in air travel during the coronavirus pandemic.
The company confirmed it is offering voluntary redundancy to everyone in its UK civil aerospace division.
It also said its defence business would be opening voluntary redundancy to "a proportion" of its Bristol-based workforce in the manufacturing assembly and test division, which had been impacted by a reduced workload from civil aerospace.
The company told Bristol Live its submarines business was not offering voluntary redundancy.
Last month, Rolls-Royce said it was expecting to reduce its global workforce of 52,000 as part of a “major reorganisation” of the business to adapt to a fall in demand.
But the scale of the job cuts has raised fears entire factories could close as the company plans to save £1.3bn, the BBC reports.
Thousands of staff have already been furloughed and last month senior managers at Rolls-Royce described the pandemic as a "deep crisis".
Warren East, chief executive of Rolls-Royce, said in May: “This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and we must deal with it.
“Our airline customers and airframe partners are having to adapt and so must we."
The aerospace giant said last month it was “working closely” with employee and trade union representatives over the redundancies.
Where Rolls-Royce could make job cuts
- Derby and the East Midlands - 1,500
- Inchinnan, Scotland - 700
- Rotherham - 100
- Washington - 50
- Solihull - 175
- Denby/Trentham - 90
- London Heathrow - 50
- Barnoldswick - 200
- Bristol - 50
- Ansty - 65
