INTERNATIONAL Singapore: Rolls-Royce drives in 500 jobs
28 March 2012
Global integrated power systems firm Rolls-Royce is bringing 500 new jobs to Singapore with the opening of a new $700m (£444m) ‘campus’, its largest facilities in Asia, at Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park.
Tues, 14 Feb 2012
Global integrated power systems firm Rolls-Royce is bringing 500 new jobs to Singapore with the opening of a new $700m (£444m) ‘campus’, its largest facilities in Asia, at Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park.
The new jobs bring to over 2,000 the total number of people employed in Singapore by Rolls-Royce, and the firm expects its value added contribution to the local economy to rise from its current 0.3% of GDP to 0.5% in 2015.The campus includes an assembly and test unit, a fan blade manufacturing facility, advanced technology centre and regional training centre.
Mike Terrett, chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, says: “The Rolls-Royce Seletar Campus brings together state-of-the-art technologies, advanced manufacturing techniques and highly skilled people to produce some of the most advanced aero engines in the world.”
Rolls-Royce employs 40,400 people in over 50 countries, with over a quarter of these being engineers.
Global integrated power systems firm Rolls-Royce is bringing 500 new jobs to Singapore with the opening of a new $700m (£444m) ‘campus’, its largest facilities in Asia, at Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park.
The new jobs bring to over 2,000 the total number of people employed in Singapore by Rolls-Royce, and the firm expects its value added contribution to the local economy to rise from its current 0.3% of GDP to 0.5% in 2015.The campus includes an assembly and test unit, a fan blade manufacturing facility, advanced technology centre and regional training centre.
Mike Terrett, chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, says: “The Rolls-Royce Seletar Campus brings together state-of-the-art technologies, advanced manufacturing techniques and highly skilled people to produce some of the most advanced aero engines in the world.”
Rolls-Royce employs 40,400 people in over 50 countries, with over a quarter of these being engineers.
