Job Description

If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.

Senior Safety Assessment Specialist

Closing Date: 28th April 2026

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

Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically, 2 days onsite per week.

Package: £45,760 - £72,340 per annum (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

A relocation package may be available (terms and conditions apply).

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.

Ready to play your part?

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?

AWE is seeking a Senior Safety Assessment Specialist to support and deliver our Leadership & Management for Safety (LMfS) and Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) culture assessment programme with a focus on:

• Leadership and Management for Safety

• Positive SHEQ Culture assessment

• Nuclear Professionalism

This is a high-profile and rewarding opportunity to help shape, influence and strengthen AWE’s SHEQ culture. You’ll work across the organisation, engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and contributing directly to our unique mission.

A strong understanding of why SHEQ culture matters - how it enhances performance, improves risk management, creates value and provides a positive working environment – is essential in this role.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Planning and delivering SHEQ culture assessments and Leadership and Management for Safety Assessments across all functions within the organisation.

• Designing and running surveys, followed by interviews with individual employees across the business.

• Producing insightful reports on Positive SHEQ Culture and Leadership & Management for Safety.

• Providing feedback, learning and analysis to senior leaders and key stakeholders.

• Supporting AWE’s compliance with Licence and Authorisation Conditions, regulatory expectations, and legislation.

• Managing AWE’s Nuclear Professionalism accreditation, including training coordination and delivery, and maintaining e-learning content and Portal pages.

• Contributing to organisation-wide communications on SHEQ culture, aligned to ‘We Care’ activities.

Who are we looking for?

This role may suit individuals from an organisational behaviour, psychology, or traditional health and safety background.

We do need you to have the following:

• Understanding of Nuclear Site Licence/Authorisation Conditions.

• Understanding of regulatory requirements in relation to safety culture and safety culture assessment.

• Awareness of UK and international safety standards relating to leadership and safety culture in a nuclear organisation.

• Solid understanding of Leadership & Management for Safety principles.

• Excellent communication and engagement skills, tailored to people across the enterprise, from our Frontline Workers to the senior leadership team.

• An ability to question and to retrieve information from multiple sources.

• Confidence in working with data, analytics and report writing.

• A commitment to promoting good practice across the organisation.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we’d like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Working in a high hazard and/or highly regulated industry (ideally nuclear).

• Applying safety culture assessment methodologies.

• Understanding regulatory requirements within the nuclear industry.

• Developing and delivering training.

• Conducting interviews, audits and data analysis.

You’ll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.

You should be willing to travel, when required, to AWE’s sites across the UK.

Work hard, be rewarded:

We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:

• 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'.

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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:

• 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.