Engineering Manager - Nuclear Facility and Equipment Upgrades Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking. Package: circa £65,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience) 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 As a key member of the Design Engineering Team the Engineering Manager will have responsibility for carrying out the technical task management and stewardship of multi-disciplinary directorate and consultancy resources to provide solutions that meet AWE and other defined stakeholders requirements for upgrades to nuclear equipment and facilities. Who are we looking for? We'd love to hear from engineers with a recognised, relevant, qualification (HND/Degree/Engineering Chartership) with the ability to work across functions, providing a supportive interface between the Facility, Subject Matter Experts and Technical Authorities. We do need you to have the following: HVAC, Mechanical or Electrical background with experience of designing complex systems in hazardous or critical environments such as: Explosive atmospheres, Close environmental control, Chemical atmospheres, Clean rooms and laboratories, Nuclear or Business critical Excellent technical and management skills including problem solving and decision making. Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for report, documentation and letter writing. Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel. Familiarity with standard office software including word processors, spreadsheets, e-mail, presentations and databases. Minimum a HND or degree in engineering and/or Chartered Membership of an engineering institution. Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following: Managing engineering solutions which fully comply with all UK legal requirements together with business case needs. Establishing, maintaining and communicating the engineering design programme, budget and work breakdown structure. Agree with the Compliance Group the extent of processes required for the specification and verification of projects. Identifying and agreeing with Heads of Delivery and others as appropriate a comprehensive resource requirement for the engineering design of the project to budgetary targets. Establish and maintain (and deliver designs in accordance with) the Design Control Plans for projects. Ensuring project personnel undertaking engineering design duties meet the requirement to be Suitably Qualified and Experienced Persons. Monitoring the co-ordination of engineering design activities of all design houses and other suppliers of engineering design contributing to the projects. Monitoring Project Changes as they affect Engineering Design Delivery and the effect of these changes against the initial budget and programme. Contribute to integrated safety when reviewing engineering designs and ensure that all technical and design risks are identified and appropriately managed to meet project requirements and the letter and intent of the CDM Regulations, including discharging the designers' role. 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'. Important things you need to know: You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process. Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process. Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 2/3 days onsite per week