An interesting piece in yesterday’s Times. The facility is at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston in Berkshire. Scientists are preparing to work on the next generation of atomic warheads. Enriched uranium and plutonium are held under a state of high security, police patrol with the same assault rifles used by the SAS. £15 billion are being spent on supervising the facility, which has 9,500 employees.
The article reports that at Aldermaston salaries average £45,500, 20% higher than the UK average, yet they are still desperate [J4MB: I think they mean struggling] to recruit. Women from diverse backgrounds and the neuro-diverse are among those being targeted. [J4MB emphasis: Maybe that’s why they’re struggling to recruit?] At present, only 20 per cent of the workforce is female, according to the female engineering director.
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DEI will be a big issue. For a start given the very much higher numbers of male engineers generally they are limiting themselves to the small number of women And of course if a recruitment drive results in too few female candidates they have to abandon the whole cohort as they can’,t just recruit the women and ignore the men ( like the RAF tried). Neuro diverse is easy as science bods often exhibit autistic traits and every other child these days has a diagnosis of ASC ADHD etc. And you can get a diagnosis on line. So my advice to the guys is self identify as non binary and go and get an on line diagnosis and they can’t refuse you!
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