Principal Reliability & Safety Engineer
Location:RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: £75,000 - £98,000 (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
AWE is currently recruiting for a Principal Reliability & Safety Engineer within the Capital Engineering group.
Are you looking for a new challenge in the world of Availability, Reliability and Maintainability (AR&M)
We have a unique opportunity working alongside AWE’s discipline leaders for some of UK’s largest Construction Projects collaborating with UK and International major Nuclear Designers.
Working on a wide breadth of AWE’s portfolio in terms of technical complexity and various projects at all different stages of their life cycle. Acting as an internal consultant to AWE you will have the opportunity to visit our multitude of unique nuclear facilities promoting the discipline within AWE community.
Who are we looking for?
We’d love to hear from individuals with an in-depth knowledge of regulations and standards and capable of applying experience to a diverse range of buildings and processes.
The suitable candidate will have extensive experience in designing and application for Safety and Reliability engineering in large complex production or manufacturing organisations preferably within a highly regulated industry.

We’d love to hear from you if your profile meets the following essential requirements:
*Proven AR&M plus safety engineering experience, ideally, within the nuclear industry
*Good knowledge of Reliability concepts and techniques, e.g. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA); Safety Integrity Level (SIL), CCF/CMF, and PFD calculations
*Application of appropriate maintainability/maintenance strategy e.g., preventative, corrective, pre-determined, condition based etc
*Substantiation of safety systems ensuring designs satisfy safety targets e.g. SSFR’s
*Predicted Reliability performance of plant/process designs using appropriate techniques e.g., dynamic Reliability Block Simulation (RBD), Markov, Chi Square and Weibull analysis
*Experience of using operational data usage to conduct in service plant/process Reliability performance analysis and recommendations for improvement
*Familiarity with Reliability and Dependability BS EN; AQAP; DEF Standards. Related Standards e.g., IEC 61508
*Comfortable navigating Failure rate data sources
*Relevant Engineering Degree (minimum HNC/HND) in an Engineering discipline
Desirable Experience:
*Membership of an appropriate professional institute preferably at Chartered Engineer level
*Experience in interfacing with Regulators at a corporate level
*Use of Software packages including Availability Workbench, Reliability Workbench & FaultTree+, RAMP
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’.
Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 2 days onsite per week.
Next steps:
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:
*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.