Job Description
What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?
For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent – Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.
It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?
We need an AWEsome Cost Engineer to join our Nuclear Threat Reduction team at AWE Nuclear Security Technologies.
Location: Our offices are based in Berkshire, RG7 4PR between Reading and Basingstoke with onsite parking.
Salary Range: £38,140 to £48,000
What’s exciting is:
Each day is different, you’ll never be bored. You’ll work with different and very interesting people across the organisation and what you do every day will make a difference to keeping our nation safe.
What does a typical day for a Cost Engineer at AWE look like?
- Preparing, monitoring and controlling cost forecasts and budgets for specified projects, including change control
- Supporting system interrogation and performance measurement of actual expenditure and performance, including accruals where necessary
- Providing input to project cost reports, including trend analysis and early warnings as necessary
- Supporting SPI and CPI variance analysis and root cause analysis, including input to the narrative
- Creating Project Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and assisting the preparation of cost studies utilising historical data
- Supporting trended data to assist Project Managers based on performance to date
- Seeking emerging cost trends to aid recommendations
- Reviewing manpower productivity and time bookings to projects including resource usage vs. planned, identify resource constraints
Although it is essential that you have Cost Engineering experience within a Project Controls function, you may not tick every box and that is fine with us. Attracting the right people is just as important as having all of the technical experience in every aspect of our Cost engineering roles so we’d still love to hear from you.
Why work for us?
AWE has been voted one of the best 25 big companies to work for this year. We offer a great package of benefits and career development as well as:
- Every other Friday off
- Pension contributions between 9% to 13%
Take a look at our benefits on our careers site.
Applications via: AWE Careers
UK Security Developed Vetting Clearance (funded by the AWE) is required in order to start which takes several months to complete. You can find information on this at Gov.UK
Important things you need to know:
- Interviews will be scheduled during working hours
- Interviews will be 90 minutes on TEAMs and will include a 5-to-10-minute presentation
- Flexible and hybrid
If we receive a high level of applications, this vacancy may close early. Refresh your CV and apply now!
(Sorry agencies – recruitment is managed by our inhouse TAPs)
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Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
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 us will be used to encourage and support you through the application process and will be held only for this purpose in accordance with GDPR.
About AWE
If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE. We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before. Find out more on ourwebsite .
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