Digitisation Specialist

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

We are recruiting for a Digitisation Specialist to provide a range of services for the digitisation of paper based and other analogue records including administration, document preparation, scanning and data entry.

Location - Reading / Basingstoke Area

**Salary**: £22,890 per annum

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

- Market leading contributory pension scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement (270 hours a year plus every other Friday off)
- Flexible working hours
- Salary sacrifice scheme
- Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)

Key Accountabilities:

- To professionally deliver digitisation services in accordance with service standards, supporting processes and work instructions.
- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide paper document preparation services to facilitate the scanning process, in doing this identify documents by type and insert document type specific separation sheets to enable documents to maintain their integrity during bulk scanning.
- Carry out scanned image quality assurance through comparing original documents to their scanned counterpart.
- Capture, record and maintain a variety of document metadata, ensuring that appropriate metadata is applied to the relevant record.
- Carry out quality assurance of document metadata that has been captured to ensure 100% accuracy.
- Provide document packing services to enable original scanned documentation to be replaced into storage cabinets.
- Provide digitisation services for other analogue media such as microfilm and radiographs using specialist digitisation machinery.
- Move documents and boxes containing documents around the working environment safely.
- Undertake specified quality checks assigned to services.
- Responsible for undertaking other duties as reasonably required from time to time by line and task management.
- To provide a range of logístical services to pack and transport paper based and other analogue records to be digitised including box construction, records packing into boxes, box movement, inventory generation, tracking and data entry.

You Will Need:

- Experience within a Commercial environment ideally as an Administrator or Receptionist
- Strong PC Literacy including Word
- Be a motivated, self-starter who is able to work under their own initiative