Manufacturing Engineering Capability Acquisition Lead

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?
AWE is currently recruiting for a Manufacturing Engineering Capability Acquisition Lead
AWE are at the start of a once-in-a-generation programme, critical to the defence of the UK in the ever-changing environment, and your skills could be used to ensure the UK remains Safe and Secure for another generation by supporting development of a modern, innovative manufacturing capability. We are tasked with designing and producing a replacement warhead at the same time as managing one of the most important and challenging infrastructure programmes ever undertaken, all at the same time as continuing to deliver the current programme. This means it has never been a more exciting time to be an engineer at AWE.
Now is the time to have your chance to be at the forefront of the design, development, and implementation of a new Manufacturing System into world-class facilities, revolutionising and modernising the way we work, ensuring the deterrent is available to support the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, now and for the future.
Engineering leadership is key to us achieving our goals, especially given the complexity of the products we make and the environment we operate in and even more important to the teams we have the honour of leading, developing and supporting.
Role: Manufacturing Engineering Capability Acquisition Lead
Location - Reading Area
Salary: £58,500 - £90,000 (dependent on skills and experience)
Closing date: 21st February 2024
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
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
• 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
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site
• Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)
• Potential opportunities to travel with work for conferences and collaboration

We are currently recruiting for leadership roles, to develop and strengthen the Manufacturing Engineering capabilities and processes. One of those roles is the Manufacturing Capability Acquisition Lead - working with our new product and new facility teams at AWE and the UK’s high value catapult centres to develop the advanced manufacturing and digital processes of the future
Reporting directly into the Group Leader Engineering for Production, this role will suit leaders who are passionate about developing capability and supporting our teams. The role will develop our Manufacturing Engineering Capability to enable us to transition from how we operate and maintain our production facilities today and into the new product and infrastructure programmes for tomorrow.
We have much to do and we would love to hear from you if you are up for the challenge of delivering change, being part of an exceptional engineering team and are committed to:

• Attracting, nurturing, developing, and retaining world class talent
• Driving a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Modernisation of the Manufacturing environment, digital enablement, and world-class technology implementation in a secure context
• Developing our engineering capabilities to deliver sound engineering solutions that are safe and secure
• Simplifying how we work and ensure responsibility, clarity, and empowerment for our key engineering leaders
• Focusing on delivery and issue resolution
• Translating strategy into operational output

Responsibilities of the role will include:

• Developing and growing the Research and Technology projects to support future production and enable programme deliverables
• Develop processes to deliver the next generation of product
• Partner and Collaborate with the Supply Chain and Industry peers, as well as Academic partners
• Assist in the identification of new equipment for new facilities and set company standards for procurement
• Embrace digital enablement in a secure environment
• Develop and own technology roadmaps
• Identify and succession plan specialist skills and taxonomies, including upskilling

If you want to work in a unique and innovative environment, where people are at the heart of the business, then AWE is the perfect place for you.
All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role, be prepared to travel in both UK and abroad and be willing and able to work in all required areas of AWE.
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