Welcome to AWE
We design and manufacture warheads and provide nuclear services to meet the needs of defence.
We design, develop, manufacture, and maintain the UK’s nuclear warheads that our submarines carry. This has been our mission for 75 years.
The UK’s nuclear deterrent only works because AWE’s people make it work. We need talented and ambitious people to join us in our work.
The UK’s nuclear deterrent only works because AWE’s people make it work
Explore opportunities for businesses across a wide range of sectors in both our ASTRAEA and infrastructure programmes.
Nowhere else in the UK handles weapons-grade fissile material. Every calculation, every weld has to be precise. There is no margin for error. No tolerance for delay.
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AWE colleagues are making a lasting difference in local communities through the company’s school volunteering programme, helping to improve learning environments while inspiring stronger connections between industry and education.
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At its heart, science is a way of understanding the world around us. It is about asking questions, testing ideas, gathering evidence and using knowledge to solve problems.
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AWE engineers have again been recognised through the prestigious Whitworth Scholarship Awards, underlining the organisation’s continued strength in developing outstanding engineering talent.
