Featured roles

Senior Facility Engineer (Electrical)

AWE is currently recruiting for a Senior Electrical Engineer (Building Services) to deliver and lead professional engineering services, to enable the Principal Asset Engineer in fulfilment of the strategy for the upkeep of all assets and equipment AWE needs to deliver the mission.

Configuration Manager

AWE is currently recruiting for a Configuration Manager for the Information, Configuration & Knowledge Management group.

Accountable for leading, coaching & developing a team at a local level to deliver team & personal objectives safely & securely to meet our operational plans. Also accountable to the Lead Configuration Manager for the successful delivery of a Configuration Management Service through-life and implementing AWE CM strategy across AWE.

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.

Non-Ionising Radiation Protection Scientist

AWE is currently recruiting for a Non-Ionising Radiation Protection Specialist for Defence Radiation Protection Services. The work covers all aspects of non-ionising radiation including: static and low frequency electromagnetic fields, radio frequency fields, incoherent artificial optical radiation and lasers.

This role is ideally suited to someone with experience of non-ionising radiation safety, preferably with a strong grounding in physics or other discipline with a strong physics content.  

Electrical Engineer (Plant & Building Services)

Working within our Facility Engineering team, we are looking to appoint an experienced Electrical Engineer (Plant & Building Services) to deliver professional engineering services across our plant and equipment.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to apply your expertise to deliver engineering solutions during the lifecycle of our facilities and in return receive excellent training and development to help you further your career. 

Control & Instrumentation (C&I) Engineer

AWE’s Facility Engineering Team is looking to appoint an experienced Control and Instrumentation (C&I) Engineer (Plant & Building Services) to deliver professional engineering services across our plant and equipment.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to apply your expertise to deliver engineering solutions during the lifecycle of our facilities and in return receive excellent training and development to help you further your career. Working in a highly regulated environment, alongside our design teams, technical experts and research centres. The role of the Manufacturing Engineer is to identify, develop and implement innovative ways of working, supporting production operations.

Engineering Masters Scheme

Would you like to be part of a team of specialist Engineers who play a pivotal role in ‘Keeping our Nation Safe’ and become a national expert in a specialist field of engineering? If so, the Engineering Masters scheme is an ideal launch pad for your career. The scheme has been established to create and develop our future engineering specialists. It allows new staff to attend a full-time MSc in a focused field of engineering whilst taking up a specialist role in one of our on-site delivery teams in Berkshire.

Instructor/Trainer – Control and Instrumentation (C&I)

AWE is looking for an Training Manager – Control and Instrumentation (C&I) to join a team responsible for inspiring and leading our apprentices to a successful C&I career.

C&I is an enduring and key role required by the business to provide maintenance, installation and design of C&I systems to allow the programme to be successfully deployed.

This group of engineers is of particular importance to the modern facilities in construction at AWE and their requirement for PLC and sensor control; C&I is amongst the UK scarce resource. The academy is the key provider of the competent workforce into the business.