b'36 Partner News Winter 2022CorporateSpotlight on: Mandy Savage FIET, Director Engineering for AWE Mandy joined AWE in April 2022 to lead the engineeringand transformation and the work involved in doing that makes me feel privileged, and function and brings a wealth of experience as an industryIm proud to drive that change. The people here are generous with their time and are recognised leader in the defence and aerospace sectors. supportive to colleagues. They want to make a difference every day and are keen to pass on their knowledge to others. To be leading the engineering function and help it become the best that it can be, and What attracted you to join AWE? What do you enjoy aboutknowing that what we do has real purpose, Ive been in senior engineering andworking for the company? makes AWE a great place for our people to leadership positions in a number ofI think this business is awesome. The peoplework and thrive.businesses, including Lockheed Martin UK,are very dedicated and proud of what they Cobham Plc, Raytheon Systems Limited anddo and our mission in national defence andWhat motivates and excites you about most recently BAE Systems. Im very proudsecurity is really important. Some of ourbeing an engineering leader? to be an engineer and am a Fellow of theengineers are world renowned and expertsWhat drives me is seeing the result of Institution of Engineering and Technologyin their fields and the work they do issuccessful change management and (IET) and a Chartered Project Managementremarkable and inspiring. For example, ourleaving some good DNA in the business Professional (ChPP).precision engineers design and manufacturein terms of improvement in capability. I sub-millimetre targetstypically the sizeam motivated to make sure that everyone Ive always been lucky to join businessesof a grain of sugar or the width of a humanis effective in their role and happy that at times of transformation and Ive reallyhairfor our Orion laser. This allows themthey are making a real difference in the enjoyed influencing and shaping thoseto test how certain materials behave underworkplace. However, as an engineering changes. AWE is also going through anextreme conditions found nowhere else onleader it is part of my role to ensure exciting period of change where we areEarththose conditions which are found inthat we work collaboratively across the realising new challenges and opportunitiesthe centre of the Sun!business and effectively within integrated and I knew I wanted to be a part of that andproducts teams to ensure that we deliver help deliver our futurefor the good of notTo be here at a time when AWE is goingthe right full lifecycle solution to our only AWE but also UK industry. through a period of unprecedented changecustomers and ultimately our end-users.'