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Business Resilience and Continuity of Operations Specialist

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

Package: £37,860 - £45,000 (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 Business Resilience and Continuity of Operations Specialist.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Business Resilience and Site Control Team within our Business Resilience Group, focused on ensuring the delivery of quality resilience and Continuity of Operations activities. We are looking for people who can work closely with all levels of stakeholders to promote and embed Resilience and Continuity of Operations practices within business areas, ensuring that the process is properly understood, applied and meets programme demands.

What will you be doing?

A typical day for a Business Resilience and Continuity of Operations specialist within the Business Resilience Group could look like this:

Meeting with business areas or Resilience Plan owners to support with deconfliction/resilience planning activities.

Monitoring proposals and plans to carry out major work operations within the declared availability of the Companies Support Resources, de-conflict where necessary.

Identifying and advising relevant business areas for the need for further deconfliction activities and Resilience Planning in response to emerging risks.

Supporting and encouraging Business Areas and Business Resilience Plan owners to think about resilience proactively rather than reactively.

Produce, develop, review and issue applicable, reports, documentation, standards, procedures, guidance, work instructions.

Who are we looking for?

We do need you to have the following:

A high attention to detail with the ability to collate, assimilate, analyse, and distil data and summarise intelligently to support decision making and action resolution.

Experience or good understanding of Business Continuity/Resilience and Operational Control in a highly regulated industry.

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 below, 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.

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

Excellent analytical experience and prior experience of activity planning and risk.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate Resilience and operational control and related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences,

Ability to manage priorities and objectives on time and to high quality with minimal supervision.

Comfortable to work with stakeholders of all levels.

High level of personal integrity, with the ability to handle confidential and otherwise sensitive matters professionally.

Have a proactive approach and be a team player.

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.

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'.

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.

Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 3 days onsite per week.

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