Head of Estate Strategy

We are seeking an exceptional leader to define and drive the long-term strategic direction of AWE's estate. This is a unique opportunity to take full accountability for infrastructure development and investment across some of the UK's most critical and complex operational environments.

Leading the estate investment and renewals programme, you will ensure the delivery of future infrastructure requirements across areas including Conventional Manufacturing, Science, Engineering and Technology, Assembly, Explosives, Hydrodynamics and Engineering Trials, Sites and Infrastructure, and Uranium and Plutonium facilities. With responsibility for significant investment programmes, you will oversee delivery against time, cost, quality and compliance objectives, ensuring the estate continues to support the evolving needs of the business.

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  Setting the strategic direction for infrastructure development and estate investment across AWE, ensuring the estate continues to meet current and future business requirements.

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  Leading the planning and delivery of estate investment and renewal programmes, ensuring projects are delivered safely, compliantly, on time, within budget and to the required quality standards.

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  Providing expert advice and guidance to the Estate Strategy and Planning Director and wider Estates and Liabilities organisation on estate management, investment priorities, risks and opportunities.

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  Supporting governance and decision-making processes on behalf of the Estate Strategy and Planning Director.

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  Engaging with business leaders and stakeholders to develop and maintain AWE's Estate Strategy, defining future estate requirements and development plans across the organisation.

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  Establishing and embedding an effective sponsorship capability across Business Units, Site and External Estates teams to drive successful project initiation and delivery.

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  Building strong relationships with General Managers, Business Unit Directors, Site Directors and their teams to understand future capability needs and translate these into estate development opportunities.

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  Developing and implementing AWE's external estate strategy, including the acquisition, fit-out, transition and operational utilisation of external facilities.

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  Leading the development, review and challenge of business cases to support estate development, investment and infrastructure projects across AWE sites and external locations.

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  Ensuring investment plans are supported by appropriate safety, technical and governance committees throughout their lifecycle.

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  Providing expert guidance to stakeholders on the development of investment proposals and business cases.

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  Identifying and evaluating internal, external and international opportunities that enhance AWE's estate capabilities and business objectives.

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  Supporting the development of the Chief People Officer's People and Places Strategy, ensuring estate plans enable workforce and organisational goals.

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  Championing delivery of AWE's mission, values and strategic objectives across all estate-related activities.

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  Ensuring robust scrutiny and challenge is applied to resourcing, financial management, risk and capability planning within the Estate Strategy and Planning team.

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  Supporting the Head of Master Planning in prioritising and balancing estate management activities, development programmes and future investment priorities.

We're looking for a strategic and influential leader with experience shaping estate, infrastructure or investment strategies within a complex organisation.

• Proven experience leading estate, infrastructure or investment programmes.

• Strong strategic planning and business case development skills.

• Experience managing large-scale capital investment portfolios.

• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.

• Strong commercial, financial and risk management capability.

• Experience translating future business needs into estate and infrastructure plans.

• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.

• Track record of delivering complex programmes to time, cost and quality requirements.

• Strong leadership skills with experience developing high-performing teams.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

This is a highly influential role, requiring strategic vision, strong leadership and the ability to deliver large-scale investment programmes that will shape the future capability of the organisation.

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.

• 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.