Facility Engineer

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent – Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

AWE is recruiting a Facility Engineer with a good mechanical engineering background. You will be responsible for delivering professional engineering services to enable the Principal Asset Engineer in fulfilment of the strategy for the upkeep of all assets and equipment AWE needs in order to deliver the Programme.  You will hold Authorised Person appointments and undertake work activities within your appointed area. 

Location - Reading / Basingstoke area

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Every other Friday off
• Market leading contributory pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement 270 hours a year (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Flexible working hours
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Consideration for either full time or part time hours. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time

Key Accountabilities:

• Demonstration of safe, effective and ethical working behaviours.

• Adherence to management system requirements for engineering activities.

• Delivery of engineering tasks to schedule, budget and quality requirements.

• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

• Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply domain and technical knowledge for design intent, as-built standards and system performance through life for engineered systems and structures.

• Interpret and deliver the requirements of issued tasks from the Asset Engineering Solutions order book (including troubleshooting, quoting, reporting, design, commissioning and handover as required), and make evidence based professional engineering decisions to solve technical problems within area of responsibility.

• Identify and escalate business risk arising from condition of engineered systems and structures.

• Demonstrate adherence to management system requirements and relevant technical standards.

• Engage with company delivery and administrative requirements; report own and team progress honestly and clearly, communicate in an engaging manner, support performance management.

• Optimise the delivery of Operations Engineering.

• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs

Please note that you must be a British National to apply for a role with us.

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 us will be used to encourage and support you through the application process and will be held only for this purpose in accordance with GDPR.

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.