Engineering Manager – Design of Facilities in Hampshire

If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.

**Location:** RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

**Package:** £49,480 - £70,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

**Working pattern:** AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

**Let us introduce the role.** AWE is currently recruiting for an Engineering Manager for the Capital Engineering function. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be the focal point for supporting our existing and new high hazard facilities and operations. Partnering with the Principal Engineering Manager, it will be your responsibility to ensure facility designs (infrastructure, utilities, processes, equipment) are suitable and appropriate by identifying and selecting solutions to meet business needs, whilst considering functional performance and licensing conditions.

**We do need you to have the following:**

• HNC/HND qualification or 4+ years industry experience in a highly regulated environment
• Ability to work across functions, providing a supportive interface between the Facility, Subject Matter Experts and Technical Authorities.
• Experience of managing both external suppliers and in-house teams to deliver Project design packages
• Experience of all aspects of the project life cycle
• Establishment of requirements and problem definition.
• History of developing and designing solutions
• Configuration management and application of change control

**Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table.** We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

**Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we’d like you to have experience in some of the following:**

• The delivery of engineering design and outputs which underpin continuous safe operations.
• Contributing within a multi-discipline environment and being responsible for the engineering design and guardianship of high integrity assets through the whole life cycle
• Articulating technical complexities and allocate Project/Design Engineers with design-related tasks to meet with working programmes.

You’ll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.

**Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:** AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

**Important things you need to know:** You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

**We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process.** Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process. Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically, 2/3 days onsite per week.

**Next steps:** Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

**Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work.** We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us. If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE. We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before.