Quality Engineer - Reading, United Kingdom - AWE

Description

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?

Quality Engineer

Location: Basingstoke/Reading

Salary: £35,720 - £45,000 depending on skills and experience

Closing Date: 6th May 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.

Key Accountabilities:

Deliver engineering solutions that meet safety and performance (including quality) requirements.

Comply with the design intent across the full engineering lifecycle.

Plan and execute tasks in order to deliver agreed objectives to time; requirements, quality and cost.

Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality.

Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees contained within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities listing, as held in the company management system.

Key Responsibilities:

Deliver Engineering Quality solutions in relation to defined requirements, across the full engineering lifecycle, to a high standard.

Effective stakeholder management, engaging others in order to complete the tasks.

Task manage multidisciplinary teams to deliver required engineering solutions.

Support developing engineers in the production of engineering solutions and their career progression.

Identify and support opportunities for cost savings, efficiency, and business improvement.

Expand engineering skills and experience relevant to engineering domain.

Take ownership of own training and development.

The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

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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.