Products

Chemring Countermeasures Limited designs and manufactures RF and IR countermeasures that are devised to protect air and naval platforms from missile threats.

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Advanced IR Countermeasures

Advanced RF Countermeasures

Advanced Naval Countermeasures

Career opportunities at Chemring Countermeasures UK

We are always on the lookout for bright, enthusiastic people and we offer a range of employment opportunities.

We value our employees and provide development and support through a range of initiatives, including a talent management programme.


For those at the very start of their careers, our Early Careers Programme provides many ways to kick start your professional career. Each year we recruit graduates into various disciplines such as business, engineering, science and finance. If you are still at university, then we can provide Year in Industry placements, which are paid placements within the same disciplines as our full time graduate colleagues. For undergraduates looking for work experience in their long summer break we provide short internships with the opportunity to explore what a future career with us might involve. Alongside our graduate programmes we are proud of our Apprentice Scheme and welcome new colleagues into technical and support disciplines through this route every year. All our Early Careers colleagues join our UK wide Early Careers Programme. You will join a network of graduates and apprentices who are training in all of our UK businesses. Alongside your technical training you will benefit from personal development and leadership capability support, helping you get the best start possible to your professional career.

If you are interested in any of our Early Careers Programmes then please contact us direct at recruit@chemringcm.com explaining where you are with your career journey and what programme is of interest to you.

Located on the edge of Salisbury Plain and about eight miles from the cathedral city, we employ 400 people with a wide variety of skills and capabilities.

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Certifications/Accreditations

ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management

ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management

ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational Health and Safety Management

BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 - General Requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, laboratory number 2613

CYBER ESSENTIALS PLUS

Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme: Gold Award

Public Policy

Counterfeit materiel in Chemring Countermeasures supply chain can seriously impact the safety and performance of our products. To combat the threat, Chemring will work with its approved suppliers to eradicate counterfeit materials at source, ensure the quality and authenticity of received goods, and take immediate action to safeguard our employees and customers. Our Internal Policy is available upon request.

History of Chemring Countermeasures Ltd

The company has its origins in the 1850s and was incorporated in 1926.

After incorporation in 1926 James Pain & Son Ltd was primarily concerned with the manufacture of pyrotechnics.

In 1960, Bryant & May acquired the company and later in 1962, acquired the Wessex Aircraft Engineering Company Ltd., which manufactured both pyrotechnic products for the military and commercial fireworks. The Wessex Aircraft Engineering Company Ltd. was located at the site Chemring Countermeasures UK occupies to this day (High Post, just north of Salisbury, Wiltshire).

By 1965, Bryant & May had amalgamated the businesses of these two companies under James Pain & Son Ltd and subsequently renamed it Pains Wessex Ltd.

In 1973, Bryant & May acquired Schermuly Ltd and that company’s business was transferred to the High Post site by 1981.

In 1976, firework manufacture ceased totally and Pains Wessex Ltd. then concentrated on pyrotechnics manufacture (although to this day, Chemring Countermeasures Ltd remains known locally as ‘the fireworks factory’).

Bryant & May was subsequently sold to a series of companies before being owned by the Allegheny International Group of America, an enormous group of companies trading in a vast variety of products.

In 1985, the Chemring Group plc acquired the Pains Wessex business as well as Allegheny’s military & marine pyrotechnic business.

Aerial shot of Chemring Countermeasures UK site at High Post, Salisbury

Contact us

Chemring Countermeasures Ltd
High Post
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP4 6AS

Tel: +44(0)1722 411 611
Email: [email protected]

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