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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The UK is entering its most significant period of nuclear expansion and renewal in decades. Meeting that ambition will require the nuclear sector to work at greater pace, improve collaboration and remove unnecessary complexity, whilst maintaining high standards of safety and environmental protection.
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AWE Chief Scientist Rob Lock has been appointed Chair of the National Laboratories Alliance (NLA), succeeding Alan Brewin, formerly Science & Engineering Director at NPL, who has chaired the Alliance for the past four years.
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Engineering is all around us. From the buildings we work in and the technology we use, to transport, energy, communications and healthcare, engineers turn ideas into reality and help solve some of society’s most complex challenges.
