BAE Systems

Type
Business expansion
Country
United Kingdom
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber; East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire; North and North East Lincolnshire
Location of affected unit(s)
Lincolnshire
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
30.1 - Building of ships and boats
30.13 - Building of military ships and vessels
150 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
4 March 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

BAe Systems, a defence contractor, is to create 150 jobs at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. The jobs are being created as the company has won the contract to maintain the RAF's Typhoon aircraft. BAe systems employs 105,000 people worldwide, although no data is available about how many of these work at RAF Coningsby. As of 8 March 2009, no date has been set for the creation of these jobs.

Sources

  • 4 March 2009: BBC News

Citation

Eurofound (2009), BAE Systems, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68452, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/68452.