Engineering Manager – Design of Facilities
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.
Overview
We are currently recruiting 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, your responsibility is to ensure facility designs (infrastructure, utilities, processes, equipment) are suitable and appropriate by identifying and selecting solutions to meet business needs while considering functional performance and licensing conditions.
Qualifications and Experience
- 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
Even if you do not meet every point above, we focus on potential, fit with our values, transferable skills, and overall experience. If you feel this role and AWE are a great fit, we welcome your application.
Preferred Experience
- Delivery of engineering design and outputs that underpin continuous safe operations
- Contributing within a multi‑discipline environment and being responsible for engineering design and guardianship of high integrity assets through the whole life cycle
- Articulating technical complexities and allocating Project/Design Engineers with design‑related tasks to meet working programmes
You will need to work calmly and constructively in a priority‑changing environment, manage your own workload, and exhibit initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and the ability to meet tight deadlines.
Benefits
- 9‑day working fortnight – you get every other Friday off, plus 270 hours of annual leave
- Market‑leading contributory pension scheme – 9% to 13% match depending on contribution
- Family‑friendly policies: Maternity Leave – 39 weeks full pay; Paternity Leave – 4 weeks full pay
- Professional Career Development opportunities, including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
- Life Assurance – 4 × annual salary
- Discounts on a wide range of everyday spending
- Special Leave Policy – paid time off for volunteering, public service (reserve forces) and caring
Additional Information
- You must obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. The nature of our work requires you to be a British citizen resident in the UK for at least 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV clearance.
- We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. If you need any adjustments/accommodations, let us know on your application form.
- Our interviews are typically conducted over Teams and for most roles are a single‑stage process.
Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non‑contractual basis: typically 2 or 3 days onsite per week.
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