Role title: Engineering VR Specialist Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking. Package: £37,860 - £50,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications & level of experience) Closing date: 30th January 2025 Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Let us introduce the role AWE is currently recruiting for an Engineering VR Specialist to work within our Applied Engineering Team. We are looking for an enthusiastic 3D Generalist to join a small team of developers/artists. This is a great opportunity to join a team responsible for providing computer graphics capability to assist AWE's engineering and scientific communities. A portfolio of work will be required at interview. Who are we looking for? We do need you to have the following: Knowledge or experience in Modelling, Texturing and Animating game-ready assets for use in our own Virtual Reality applications. Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following as these are all parts of the work we do: Generating CAD exports Animation Modelling Lighting Retopology PBR Texturing Compositing/Video editing Experience using 3ds Max, Photoshop, After Effects, Unreal Engine and Substance Painter/Designer are preferable, but equivalent skills will still be considered We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes. Some reasons we think you'll love it here: AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include: 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave. Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions) Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services Life Assurance (4 x annual salary) 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 The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'. You must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role (more information on this can be found on our website) and be willing and able to travel within the UK and overseas if required Due to the classified nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston. LI-GD ADZN1_UKTJ