My honest experience of 9 years at AWE. - Quality Inspector Specialist AWE Employee Review

Overall, My 9 years at AWE I’ve found challenging. My “timeline” follows a similar trend to many other I know, work with and have worked with. I came from an outside industry - driven by profit. My first 3 years at AWE was getting used to the very slow pace of the environment - largely due to the abundance of red tape/road blocks to perform even the most simplest tasks. I understand, these are to keep us safe, protect what AWE do and ultimately ensure people go home safe. The vast majority of red tape has no form, nor enabling function in affecting safety it’s just because! Once I’d settled into AWE I was fairly content for a period of maybe 2/3 years - ironically I found myself going home feeling as though I’d been busy but upon reflection I often found myself questioning what I had actually achieved, or contributed towards AWEs mission in said working day. My last 3 years, I was frustrated, with mid and high level leaders the ability to adopt and change processes, implement and follow through good cause and effect was “feared” the company is very stuck in the times, its world leading in aspects, there is thousands of the countries greatest minds who work behind the fences of AWE A & AWE B, my comment to Managment would be look at what they achieve - now imagine what they could achieve on mass (in the thousands) given the right support, can do attitude and willingness to adopt, overcome and change the way the company does things!