Placement

As a Mechanical Design Engineer within our Warhead Engineering subfunction, you will be part of a supportive team involved in a range of activities covering concept and detail design, drawings, assembly and testing of precision mechanical devices, components and systems. Our work is key to substantiating the safety and effectiveness of the warhead system, de-risking the current and future systems. We also support other programmes across the business.

AWE is a high performing streamlined business, delivering extraordinary products. By joining us as an Undergraduate Student, you will make a direct contribution to the successful operations in the Trials and Test Technology Centre, where we conduct trials across mechanical, explosive and extreme environments, and maintain capabilities such as the Orion plasma LASER facility (see URL link). You will also gain knowledge and experience of industry best practice within the Mechanical Design Engineering discipline.

AWE is a high performing streamlined business, delivering extraordinary products. By joining us as an Undergraduate Student, you will make a direct contribution to the successful operations in the Trials and Test Technology Centre, where we conduct trials across mechanical, explosive and extreme environments, and maintain capabilities such as the Orion plasma LASER facility (see URL link). You will also gain knowledge and experience of industry best practice within the Science discipline.

AWE is a high performing streamlined business, delivering extraordinary products. By joining us as an Undergraduate Student, you will make a direct contribution to the successful operations in the Trials and Test Technology Centre, where we conduct trials across mechanical, explosive and extreme environments, and maintain capabilities such as the Orion plasma LASER facility. You will also gain knowledge and experience of industry best practice within the Electronics Engineer discipline.

This placement is within the Warhead Systems Engineering Team. We support the UK’s Continuous-At-Sea-Deterrent by providing the capability to design, coordinate, integrate and verify Nuclear Warheads and enable systems to meet current and potential future customer requirements. We deliver an integrated solution, managing the systems from cradle to grave taking consideration of safety, performance and through-life maintenance. To facilitate this, we interface with the MoD and other defence partners.

AWE is currently developing a replacement nuclear warhead to protect the UK into the future. This will involve developing new manufacturing processes and has seen the start of a huge capital build programme of hi-tec facilities and infrastructure to enable the warhead designs to become a reality!

As an undergraduate student within Environmental Monitoring, you will get the opportunity to work in an exciting part of AWE ensuring compliance through delivery of regulatory requirements. In this role you will carry out regular scientific collection and analysis in support of regulatory duties, including the radiological and chemical monitoring of aqueous, airborne particulate, sediments and organic samples. The role also gives opportunity for learning about permit compliance, producing regulatory reports and assisting in programme reviews.  You will also be involved in providing bulk waste sentencing for small and large construction and demolition projects by planning, and scientific radiological and chemical analysis with a statistical reporting approach.

As an undergraduate manufacturing Engineer you will be part of a supportive team within the Production & Assets engineering subfunction. This team is involved in improving the productivity, safety & reliability, innovation and quality of nuclear Warheads manufactured within AWE, as well as significantly impacting the safety and security of the production personnel. As well as working on extraordinary products, you will gain knowledge of a wide range of engineering disciplines in the context of advanced manufacturing and safety-critical stakeholder requirements.

As an undergraduate student within the Modelling Team in Materials and Analytical Science, you will get the opportunity to work in an exciting part of AWE through projects which may include working on a range of models and codes, utilising several coding languages, helping deliver our mission.