Group Leader - Asset Operations

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?
Group Leader - Asset Operations
The Group LeaderAsset Operations is the business partner representing Estates and Liabilities in AWE s production and science capabilities. They ensure asset availability to support programme requirements and compliance with the facility safety case/risk assessments. A senior leader in the business, the GLAO line manages a group of facility managers in addition to task management of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, quality, and Environment Safety & Health professionals to optimise total cost of ownership of the infrastructure they support. As AWE embarks on an ambitious new programme of capital investments to support our next generation of nuclear capabilities, the GLAO is required to set the vision for facility operations of the future that delivers transformational change.
Location - Reading/Basingstoke area
Salary - £Negotiable
Closing date - 1st July 2024
Key Accountabilities of the role:

• Estates & Liabilities Business Partner to ensure availability of services across the functions to ensure Strategic and Tactical requirements of Assets within your Estate Area and are available to meet the agreed demands of the Estate Area/ Technology Centre.
• Ensures the resourcing and funding is in place to maintain facility Safety Case/Risk Assessments for the Facilities within your Estate Area, ensuring proportionality of processes is applied.
• Setting direction and developing a shared understanding of individuals roles in delivering the AWE vision and strategy.
• Owner and management of the Asset Management Plan for your Estate area to enable successful service delivery and asset performance with optimised total cost of capability ownership.
• Enabling the performance and results of the team. Making sure that team members have the capabilities to get the work done now and in the future.
• Accountable for leading, coaching & developing a team of leaders and influencing others at specialism or functional level to create & deliver operational plans.

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:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
• Life Assurance
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site.

AWE is seeking individuals with the following skills and attributes -

• Achieving successful enablement of teams in an environment representative of UK industrial/commercial business which has concurrent multiple high value investment projects, critical operational activities, and transformation projects.
• Extensive facility and/or process management experience.
• Managing within a highly regulated environment.
• Interaction with internal and external stakeholders.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen 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.