AWE
Senior Engineering Manager
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Senior Engineering Manager
Location: Coulport, near Helensburgh (Scotland - 20 minutes north of Helensburgh)
Package: £50,000-£60,000 (Dependant on experience and suitability for the role)
Working pattern: Monday – Thursday (core hours)
For internal candidates - Secondment opportunities will be considered for these roles, please contact the hiring manager to discuss further.
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At AWE, it’s not just a job, it’s far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?
As the Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead and manage a technical team; providing effective leadership as the main contact point for all team members and/or other team leaders. You’ll maintain a technical capability that delivers critical skills and resources aligned to current and future business requirements to deliver the integrated technical programme.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Accountable for leading, coaching and developing a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet our operational plans, including mentoring and career development of staff.
- Assessing staff performance, measured against agreed personal objectives and accountabilities, and taking corrective action to improve performance where necessary via appropriate management interventions.
- Deploy appropriate resources where they need to be allocated to deliver engineering solutions, across multiple disciplines and projects.
- Accountable for ensuring that engineering resources are competent, capable, appropriately assessed and that evidence exists in line with company processes.
- Ensure compliance with Licence/Authorisation Conditions, Legislation and Regulations.
- To deliver the programme and mobilise resources in a safe, secure and efficient manner.
- Responsible for ensuring that the team produce high quality work, that has been subjected to the correct AWE governance processes as applicable.
- Ensuring that the work undertaken by the team and/or teams is consistent with AWE strategy, policies, processes, procedures, and quality standards.
- Effective stakeholder management, engaging others in order to have a positive impact on decisions and programme delivery.
- Responsible for ensuring that the team maintain accurate configuration of engineering deliverables.
- Providing an agile capability, delivering critical skills and resource aligned to business requirements underpinning the Programme.
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Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:
AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:
- Time to recharge your batteries with 266 hours of annual leave.
- Subsidised Transport Service to the site.
- 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 on-site Occupational Health Services, which includes access to physiotherapy, GP, counselling support, financial advice.
- 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.
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Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.
Important things you need to know:
- We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
- 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.
- 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 will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
- Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
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