Senior Asset Operations Manager

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?
Senior Asset Operations Manager
Location - Reading / Basingstoke Area
Salary - £61k - £66k (dependent on experience and suitability for the role)
Closing date - 31st May 2024
Why AWE?
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)
  
• 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.
  

What’s A Day like in the life of a Senior Asset Operations Manager?
Our Senior Asset Operations Managers are required to manage and deliver a flexible, varied, and robust service across both Aldermaston and Burghfield sites. They are responsible for ensuring provision of cost-effective operations within the limits of their appointed authority and to deliver management reporting for their area, team, and for their service support / providers; thus, ensuring performance levels and compliance is maintained, whilst allowing efficiencies to be identified and addressed appropriately.
Successful Candidates will be responsible for:

• Daily management of assets within an Estate Area to ensure they are maintained and available in accordance with Programme demands.
  
• Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality and be a great team player.
  
• Co-ordinating services across the functions to ensure tactical and operational requirements of Assets, within your Estate Area, are operational to meet the agreed demands of the Estate Area/ Technology Centre.
  
• Ownership of the Facility Safety Justifications on behalf of the ATO Holder for the Facilities within your Estate Area, ensuring proportionality of processes is applied.
  
• Ownership of the "Safe Operating Envelope" for the Facilities within your Estate Area.
  
• Approval of changes to Assets within your Estate Area and ensuring adherence to the correct change control process.
  
• Ensuring optimal facility emergency response arrangements are in place.
  
• Management of facility budget in accordance with the company's financial protocols
  

Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

• Extensive facility and/or process management experience.
  
• Knowledge of Assets and Asset change.
  
• Experience of managing within a highly regulated environment.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
  
• Financial and commercial awareness, delivering value for money and added value
  
• Excellent communication, presentational and negotiation skills.
  
• Delivery of modern standard safety analysis and implementation in facility.
  
• Member of Level 4 RIM, feeding to Level 3 Tech Centre RIM and KIT meetings as required.
  

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role and be willing and able to work in designated areas.
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