Rolls-Royce has joined together with ITN Business and New Scientist for STEM Week.
The programme features key industry interviews and news-style reports along with editorial profiles.
We have long been a pioneer of innovation, with more than 60 years of nuclear expertise, supported and strengthened by our passionate and enthusiastic apprentices and graduates. Creating and maintaining this pipeline of talent is crucial to UK defence, alongside providing jobs and opportunities for individuals across the UK and more locally in the East Midlands. Which is why we opened a new Nuclear Skills Academy to 200 apprentices in September.
Filming for the programme took place across Rolls-Royce sites, including the newly opened Nuclear Skills Academy, shining a light on the talent we currently have in our apprentice and graduate programmes and encouraging the next generation of talent to look forward to a career in the nuclear industry.
Olivia Maltby, Project Engineer, has just finished our Project Management apprenticeship and said: 'I decided to retrain, and applied for the project management apprenticeship scheme at the age of 22. Here I am four years later with a full-time role as a project engineer within the submarines business.'
The programme emphasises the importance of the work done at Rolls-Royce Submarines, powering the UK's nuclear underwater defences, and helping the Royal Navy to protect UK shores through the full lifecycle support of the submarines. At the heart of this is the enthusiasm and passion that comes through from our apprentices and graduates as they begin their careers and gather the vital, hands-on experience that working and learning at Rolls-Royce provides.
With the maintenance of the UK's continuous at sea deterrent at the forefront of our minds, it's important that Rolls-Royce continues to nurture the UK's STEM talents and provide them with the education and industry experience to really make them shine.
One person who knows this first-hand is former apprentice and now Director of Engineering and Technology, Lee Warren: 'Working in the UK Nuclear Submarines Business is absolutely fantastic. I wouldn't be here 33 years later, still in the same project if it wasn't exciting every single day.'
The Rolls-Royce Nuclear Skills Academy opens applications for its 2023 intake next week.
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Rolls-Royce pioneers the power that matters to connect, power and protect society. We have pledged to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in our operations by 2030 (excluding product testing) and joined the UN Race to Zero campaign in 2020, affirming our ambition to play a fundamental role in enabling the sectors in which we operate achieve net zero carbon by 2050.
Rolls-Royce Power Systems is headquartered in Friedrichshafen in southern Germany and employs around 9,000 people. The product portfolio includes mtu-brand high-speed engines and propulsion systems for ships, power generation, heavy land, rail and defence vehicles and for the oil and gas industry as well as diesel and gas systems and battery containers for mission critical, standby and continuous power, combined generation of heat and power, and microgrids and is intensively engaged in the development of climate-neutral solutions.
Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 150 countries, comprising more than 400 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces and navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.
Annual underlying revenue was GBP10.95 billion in 2021, underlying operating profit was GBP414m and we invested GBP1.18 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 28 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.
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