Group Leader Engineering Delivery Lead (Non-Nuclear)

Closing date: 1st January 2025

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Salary: Competitive Package that reflects the Senior Leadership responsibilities of the role.

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. Please note this role is based on site at Aldermaston, Berkshire.

Let us introduce the role:

The Group Leader Engineering (Delivery) reports directly to the Head of Engineering for our Production and Assets team a group of c.1000 employees and through them into the Executive Director for Engineering at AWE.

Within this role, you will be accountable for the delivery, performance and quality within your area implementing the overall engineering strategy and will hold delegated design authority.

This is a pivotal role which will combine your technical and leadership ability with the experience to deliver strategic goals and objectives.

You will need gravitas, resilience and passion to engage with and influence those at the most senior levels to deliver our programmes of work from cradle to grave.

Key Accountabilities:

Key member of the Delivery Unit Leadership Team in establishing and delivering a holistic strategy including the supply chain that improves efficiency, effectiveness and quality to ensure fit for purpose engineering solutions are deployed
Lead engagement with Supply Chain to generate, manage and oversee maintenance contracts including technical requirements documents (TRD's)
Leadership of the engineering activities and governance across the Delivery Unit portfolio to time, quality, and cost
Work with Head of Engineering Delivery to ensure the engineering demand plan for the delivery unit is realistic and deliverable
Accountable for the task management and performance management of embedded engineers and provide input and support to the Head of Engineering for areas such as recruitment and training
Accountable for providing information to support the Head of Engineering Delivery on task-based staff performance
Provide inspirational leadership to multi-disciplinary teams with diverse skills and experience to further strengthen high performing teams
Act as the Senior Accountable Design Authority
Lead engineering regulatory interfaces to ensure Engineering solutions meet associated regulatory requirements

Key Skills, Qualifications, Experience, for the role:

Proven track record of driving delivery, continuous improvement and sustained performance focusing on the engineering strategy, technical direction and overall capability including people, process & technology & safety
Ability to direct high performing and motivated engineering teams to embrace diversity of thought and constructively challenge people's behaviour and work methodologies
Ability to provide thought leadership and drive innovation for first of a kind standardisation across the engineering solution
Proven record engaging with and management of Supply Chain contracts including TRD's
Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and organisational skills
Ability to manage and lead people through transformation and change
Experience, leading by example, with regards to positive behaviours and safety culture
Experience collaborating with external stakeholders and organisations to positively raise the profile of AWE
Financial awareness and management of budgets
Chartered Membership of an appropriate professional institution
Technical ability to act as Senior Accountable Design Authority

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)
Performance related bonus
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.
All candidates must be willing, if able, to undertake UK and overseas travel as 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.

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