Senior Safety Specialist (Explosives)

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Senior Safety Specialist (Explosives)

Closing date: 13th October 2025

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

Package: Starting from £44,110 (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.

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?

• Managing the technical development and production of health & safety documentation for a project and/or portfolio.
• Support to the local ESH Improvement Plans (culture, communications, etc.).
• Progressing on associated Operational/Assurance Functional Excellence Plans (FEP), Key Performance Indicators (KPI) etc. facilitating progress, as appropriate, to needs, accountabilities and responsibilities.
• Contributing to processes/tools that assess performance of the development and use of safety activities and Licence Condition compliance and identify where improvements could be made.
• Coaching others in safety (general/industrial/nuclear/explosives safety and other major hazards) approaches and techniques.
• Promoting learning and improvement through operational briefings, toolbox talks and presentations.
• Provides technical input to the production of company policy, guidance and strategy.
• Maintains a proactive regulatory interface with all internal and external regulators/stakeholders.
• Ensuring that company strategies, policies and management system requirements for conventional health & safety are communicated and understood.

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.