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Engineering Manager (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 18 Months

Contracting Authority: AWE

Location: Burghfield, 3 days site attendance

What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.

That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

As an Engineering Manager, your main responsibilities will be: 

• To be the lead engineering representative on the project. Responsible for delivery in terms of quality, meeting requirements, safety, value for money and schedule. Be the main point of contact for all engineering matters on a project.
• To ensure that the Engineering Requirements are suitable & appropriate and advise the Senior Engineering Manager.
• To recommend the budget and programme, to the Senior Engineering Manager, to deliver design.
• Assessing the suitability of engineering design resources (both internal and external to AWE) to execute facility design. Ensure adequate competency and competency records.
• To lead, drive, communicate and deliver Facility Designs, with due regard to safety, quality, schedule, cost effectiveness and lifetime value for money.
• Maintaining oversight of the facility design as it develops via routine reviews.
• To deliver, to the SEM, design solutions that meet business needs, functional performance, through life performance and is licensable and deliverable.
• To manage the Design Intent and Design Information Configuration from inception through to project handover.
• To provide functional support in identifying and implementing change, development and improvement.
• To assist the Head of Design Engineering in developing the Facility Design capability within AWE, encompassing both Improvements and Resource skills development.

Essential:

• DV or a minimum of SC level clearance.
• Mechanical, electrical or building services engineering background.
• Multidiscipline experience (Mechanical engineering focus would be beneficial).
• Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels.
• Experience with highly regulated industry.
• Ability to capture engineering requirements and produce technical documentation and specifications.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with neil.young@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

AWE is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.