Manufacturing & Engineering
Advanced manufacturing is an important sector for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Built on Peterborough’s manufacturing heritage combined with Cambridgeshire’s excellence in technology, knowledge & research, Advanced manufacturing incorporates a number of sub-sectors, including pharmaceuticals and biotech, engine development, aerospace, energy and printing and employment is particularly high in the manufacture of engines and turbines, the manufacture of air and space craft, health diagnostics and carbon capture.
Advanced manufacturing is made of a large number of SMEs as well as some very large global companies. The demand for technical skills is high, and growing, but there are also corporate roles available within this growing and exciting sector.
73,600 people employed in Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering
source: ONS (2020) Business Register & Employment Survey
51,400 in Manufacturing and Engineering
22,200 in Advanced Manufacturing
12.3% Advanced Manufacturing employment growth since 2010
source: ONS (2020) Business Register & Employment Survey
5,040 Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering firms in our region
source: ONS (2020) Business Register & Employment Survey
Home to the UK headquarters of major global firms
Also home to major manufacturing and engineering businesses including:
Avingtrans | Baker Perkins | Bradshaw Electric Vehicles | Domino Printing Sciences | Hutchinson | Lawrence David
Marshall Aerospace OAL | Peter Brotherhood | PhotoCentric 3D | ProCam | Rapidrop | Royal HaskoningDHV | Xaar
Manufacturing and Engineering jobs
Manufacturing and Engineering apprenticeships
Manufacturing and Engineering courses
Advanced Manufacturing Strategy
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