Finmeccanica UK

Excellence is at the core of everything we do at Finmeccanica – something which is translated through the following values:

• We work together with our customers and suppliers to build close and enduring relationships based on a transparent understanding of our respective aspirations and challenges.
• We take pride in the technical versatility and depth of our science-based organisation and its ability to provide leading-edge solutions for our customers.
• We are a customer-focused network of companies that strives to ensure that we understand what is required of us and how best we can meet and exceed expectations.
• In our complex markets, customers demand end-to-end solutions, so we are making through-life capability management a value-for-money reality.
• We recruit and develop talented and skilled people and share learning and models of best practice across the international group.
• We are firmly committed to our corporate responsibility agenda and take a proactive approach to sustainable procurement and business ethics, based on the key principals of Integrity, Professionalism, Responsibility, Loyalty, Fairness and Commitment; we cultivate a culture of safety and community development, as illustrated in our corporate responsibility brochure.
• Above all, we continue to invest in the UK and are committed to excellence through innovation.

 

Building upon these values, our vision is to be a partner of choice within the UK defence and security community by delivering outstanding end-to-end solutions.

 

Excellence through innovation

Our leading position in the UK as a world-class advanced engineering company is built on our sustained investment in Research and Technology and world-class facilities, helping keep the UK at the cutting-edge of innovation and advanced manufacturing.

 

Our competitive edge lies in the quality of our individual centres of excellence and their core technical expertise, combined with the collective ability to develop and deliver integrated systems and solutions. Our global footprint enables us to leverage capabilities across all our worldwide businesses.

 

We play a leading part in defence technology centres of excellence and nurture strong links with more than 30 major universities throughout the country, where we are involved in around 50 research projects.

 

Incremental technology insertion is at the heart of through-life capability planning and management. Our customers are facing unprecedented demands to respond to rapidly evolving challenges under constrained financial resources. Finmeccanica is fully committed to meeting these needs by developing cost-effective, adaptable and responsive solutions through a whole-life approach.

 

We believe that the success of capability management results from ensuring a comprehensive understanding of customer requirements as they evolve over time; establishing a partnered approach to support; and planning technology upgrades to ensure capability is optimally achieved through-life.

 

Our UK businesses rank among the top suppliers to the UK MoD in terms of performance on programmes and quality of the relationship. Finmeccanica prides itself on recruiting the very best. Our operating companies run flourishing graduate and apprentice schemes for over 400 trainees nationwide. The Finmeccanica National Apprentice Scheme has been given a glowing Ofsted report, with an overall grade of ‘Outstanding’; and the company has received numerous awards for its pension schemes, including the Professional Pensions award for “Pension Scheme of the Year”.

 

Finmeccanica in the UK was recently named one of Britain’s Top Employers 2013. Independent research conducted by the Corporate Research Foundation (CRF) Institute found that Finmeccanica’s employees benefit from outstanding human resource policies. The organisations examined were assessed against the following criteria: Primary and Secondary Benefits and Working Conditions, Training and Development, Career Development, and Company Culture. Finmeccanica received an exceptionally high score in the area of Training and Development. 

 

Finmeccanica recognises that delivery of leading-edge capability requires working closely with an extensive supply network. Much of the work undertaken by our companies sees them focus their expertise on design, development, assembly, integration, testing and certification; this approach requires a robust and sustainable manufacturing supply chain which is rich in SMEs.

 

It is crucial for our businesses to be able to leverage developments in new technologies, as they emerge. This often means working with small start-up businesses, university spin-offs, or specialist SMEs. We recognise that smaller enterprises can have limited resilience, capacity and cash resources and therefore we have designed our project and supplier management processes to help them through collaborative development processes, shield them from some of the project risk, and, on occasion, help protect their commercial viability. Our companies are founding members of the SC21 initiative in the UK which seeks to structure supply chains to encourage collaborative capability development activity, identifying and mitigating risk at the earliest opportunity.