AWE

For over 75 years, AWE has played a role of critical national importance: helping deliver the UK’s nuclear deterrent. When the work you do can’t be tested, but also can’t afford to fail, you need the very best in the business at your disposal – and we’re proud to call some of the world’s greatest minds in engineering and science members of our team.

It’s an incredibly exciting time at AWE. We’re in the early stages of a significant programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We’re also going through an important infrastructure programme, delivering a cutting-edge, sustainable environment for the future, while maintaining our existing 1,000-acre-plus estate – which already includes unique facilities.

The importance of the work we do, to keep the nation safe and deliver a secure future for all, cannot be questioned. We’re at the very forefront of nuclear technology and innovation – and whether it’s the extraordinary people working on our warhead programme, or the talented teams ensuring our sites and facilities are maintained and improved, expert engineers and scientists are pivotal to the delivery of our mission.

Today, AWE’s workforce stands at over 9500 exceptional people. We’re consistently named as one of the UK’s top 25 best big companies to work for, recognising our commitment to our people and demonstrating that we prioritise employee engagement as a vital part of our success.

AWE has been partnered with WISE since 2013, being one of the first signatories on the 10 steps.  We have been thrilled to have representatives on the WISE Young Professional Committee, and for our senior leaders to speak at WISE events.

We have partnered with STEM returners, underlining our commitment to making STEM a career for women at every stage of their career journey.

At AWE we have a passionate inclusion team and gender balance employee resource group, 1 of our 6 active, volunteer led ERGs.  They are looking to improve the employee experience, with efforts including improving our female PPE options, providing free period products across our various sites and introducing “stay interviews” to learn from our employees how we can make the changes they want to see.

We have introduced an annual Ada Lovelace Day celebration, promoting female STEM role models from throughout history to primary school children, with a series of interactive experiments each aligned to a different role model, showing that STEM is a real career option for everyone.